LEADER 03669oam 22005654a 450 001 9910136143103321 005 20180514203614.0 010 $a1-943665-44-3 010 $a1-943665-45-1 035 $a(CKB)3710000000912556 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4718367 035 $a(OCoLC)950084390 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse56421 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000912556 100 $a20160517d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aCast in Deathless Bronze$b[electronic resource] $eAndrew Rowan, the Spanish-American War, and the Origins of American Empire /$fby Donald Tunnicliff Rice 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aMorgantown, [West Virginia] :$cWest Virginia University Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (385 pages) 311 $a1-943665-43-5 311 $a1-943665-42-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. "It is meritorious to be a boy at West Point" -- 2. Becoming an Intelligence Officer -- 3. "A Most Perilous Undertaking" -- 4. America Takes a Step towards Empire -- 5. The Creation of an American Myth -- 6. Exactly Where Are the Philippines? -- 7. A Glorious Undertaking -- 8. Captain Rowan in Command -- 9. An Idyllic Spot to Spend the War -- 10. Major Rowan in Love and War -- 11. The Complexities of Retirement -- 12. The Myth Lives On -- Epilogue. 330 2 $a"In 1898, when war with Spain seemed inevitable, Andrew Summers Rowan, an American army lieutenant from West Virginia, was sent on a secret mission to Cuba. He was to meet with General Calixto Garci?a, a leader of the Cuban rebels, in order to gather information for a U.S. invasion. Months later, after the war was fought and won, a flamboyant entrepreneur named Elbert Hubbard wrote an account of Rowan's mission entitled 'A Message to Garcia.' It sold millions of copies, and Rowan became the equivalent of a modern-day rock star. His fame resulted in hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles, radio shows, and two movies. Even today he is held up as an exemplar of bravery and loyalty. The problem is that nothing Hubbard wrote about Rowan was true. Donald Tunnicliff Rice reveals the facts behind the story of 'A Message to Garcia' while using Rowan's biography as a window into the history of the Spanish-American War, the Philippine War, and the Moro Rebellion. The result is a compellingly written narrative containing many details never before published in any form, and also an accessible perspective on American diplomatic and military history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military$2bisacsh 606 $aHISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)$2bisacsh 606 $aSpanish-American War, 1898$xSecret service$zUnited States 606 $aIntelligence officers$zUnited States$vBiography 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1865-1921 607 $aUnited States$xTerritorial expansion 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military. 615 7$aHISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies). 615 0$aSpanish-American War, 1898$xSecret service 615 0$aIntelligence officers 676 $a973.8/9092 686 $aHIS038000$aBIO008000$2bisacsh 700 $aRice$b Donald Tunnicliff$01215889 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910136143103321 996 $aCast in Deathless Bronze$92809551 997 $aUNINA