Cast in Deathless Bronze

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