Donald Tunnicliff Rice is the author of The Agitator and How to Publish Your Own Magazine, and the winner of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Achievement Award. He has been employed as a history textbook writer, technical editor, and advertising copywriter. His writings have appeared in periodicals ranging from the New York Times to the Journal of Caribbean Literature.
"Cast in Deathless Bronze is well worth reading. Rowan's story not
only intersects with West Virginia history, but it reconstructs
early military efforts at intelligence-gathering, reveals the many
aspects--the tedious and lonely, the fulfilling and frustrating--of
military life on the late nineteenth-century western frontier and
in Cuba and the Philippines, and illustrates effectively the way
history is often twisted into a myth that overwhelms both the
actions of its original participants and truth itself."
West Virginia History
"Both authoritative and entertaining."
Caribbean Studies
"The story of Andrew Summers Rowan is very much worth telling, and
it's difficult to imagine it being told better than in this
book."
Peter Hulme, author of Cuba's Wild East: A Literary Geography of
Oriente
"What makes this book so fascinating is the way in which the author
weaves Andrew Rowan's personal story into the greater history of
American imperial expansion under McKinley and Roosevelt. Both
general readers and scholars interested in West Virginia history
and, especially, in the complex history of the U.S.'s war against
Spain and subsequent ascension over the Philippines will find a
great deal to admire."
Brady Harrison, author of Agent of Empire: William Walker and the
Imperial Self in American Literature
"Rice interweaves personal and national history to outline major
shifts in expansionist activity under McKinley and Roosevelt. . . .
Readers who thrill to the particulars of life in military camps
will find much to enjoy here."Publishers Weekly
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