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WORK TITLE: Cast in Deathless Bronze
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PSEUDONYM(S): Fogg, Alan; Fogg, Carolyn
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PERSONAL
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CAREER
History textbook writer, technical editor, advertising copywriter, short story writer, mystery writer.
AWARDS:Ohio Arts Council Individual Achievement Award, 2011, for Cast in Deathless Bronze.
WRITINGS
Contributor of articles, satire, and short stories to journals and magazines, including the Apalachee Review, Smith, Scholia Satyrica, Journal of Caribbean Literature, New York Times, and Dramatika.
SIDELIGHTS
Donald Tunnicliff Rice, who also writes as Alan Fogg and Carolyn Fogg, is a history textbook writer, technical editor, and advertising copywriter. His out-of-print nonfiction books include The Agitator, How to Publish Your Own Magazine, and The Friendly Stars. He contributes articles, satire, and short stories to journals and magazines, including The Apalachee Review, Journal of Caribbean Literature, and The New York Times. In 2011, Rice received a $5,000 Individual Achievement Award from the Ohio Arts Council in recognition of his biography, Cast in Deathless Bronze.
The Uncles and On the Road in San Miguel
In 2014, Rice wrote The Uncles as Alan Fogg. Set in a small town, the mystery story features four respectable, middle-class men who become vigilantes protecting abused and bullied women. Some of the resulting murders, while obviously illegal, nevertheless please most folks in the town. As the local police investigate, the narrative flashes back to the paths various participants took to the ultimate conclusion of murder.
Writing as Carolyn Fogg, Rice published On the Road in San Miguel in 2015. In the story, Helga Arrowsmith goes to visit her friend Marilyn Burgess in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. With Marilyn away, Helga stays at the Casa Arriba hotel where she meets a trove of exotic characters. After one of her new friends is found murdered, Helga fears she is next.
Cast in Deathless Bronze
In 2016, Rice wrote the nonfiction book, Cast in Deathless Bronze: Andrew Rowan, the Spanish-American War, and the Origins of American Empire. Rice reveals how the story of a mission to Cuba was fabricated. In 1898 during the Spanish-American War, West Virginia army lieutenant Andrew Summers Rowan was sent to Cuba on a secret mission to meet with Cuban rebel leader General Calixto Garcia to gather intelligence. After the war, entrepreneur Elbert Hubbard wrote about Rowan’s mission in “A Message to Garcia,” which sold millions of copies. Rowan became a contemporary hero, appearing on radio shows and in hundreds of newspaper articles. Described as a megalomaniac, Hubbard had elaborated the whole story well beyond the facts.
In recounting the story, Rice also examines the broader issue of the Spanish-American War, the Philippine-American War, and American expansionism under Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt. Rice weaves Rowan’s personal story into the history of American imperial expansion. He also reveals the true story of Rowan, his youth at West Point, and his command during the Moro Rebellion. A writer in Publishers Weekly said that readers who like details about life in military camps will enjoy the book, however, “those hoping for a sustained critique of U.S. diplomacy may be less satisfied.”
BIOCRIT
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Publishers Weekly, October 31, 2016, review of Cast in Deathless Bronze: Andrew Rowan, the Spanish-American War, and the Origins of American Empire, p. 66.*
ALAN FOGG is one of the pen names - brands, really - used by Donald Tunnicliff Rice. In this case the name is attached to mysteries involving his protagonist, Eddie Zack, and to other mystery titles set in the fictional town of Ida, Ohio.
In addition to novels, Rice is the author or editor of eight published non-fiction books (all now out of print) including The Agitator (American Library Association), How to Publish Your Own Magazine (David McKay), and The Friendly Stars (Van Nostrand Reinhold). His articles, satires, and short stories have appeared in many journals and magazines, including The Apalachee Review, The Smith, Scholia Satyrica, The New York Times, and Dramatika.
In 2011 he received a $5,000 Individual Achievement Award from the Ohio Arts Council in recognition of his biography, Cast in Deathless Bronze: The Making of an American Myth - Andrew Rowan and His Message to Garcia. He has recently completed a satirical novel set in the period just prior to the American invasion of Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
Cast in Deathless Bronze: Andrew Rowan, the SpanishAmerican
War, and the Origins of American Empire
Publishers Weekly.
263.44 (Oct. 31, 2016): p66.
COPYRIGHT 2016 PWxyz, LLC
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Full Text:
Cast in Deathless Bronze: Andrew Rowan, the Spanish-American War, and the Origins of American Empire
Donald Tunnicliff Rice. West Virginia Univ., $27.99 (366p) ISBN 978-1-943665-43-3
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In this history of late 19th-century American expansionism, Rice debunks the popular story of Andrew Summers Rowan's secret 1898 mission to
Cuba, using the young army lieutenant as a lens for examining U.S. military actions during the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars.
Rowan's intelligence-gathering expedition centered on a meeting with the Cuban rebel leader Gen. Calixto Garcia iniguez. Two months later,
writer and "megalomaniac" Elbert Hubbard transformed the event into a largely fabricated but wildly popular account, rocketing Rowan to
widespread renown. Despite Hubbard's central role in apotheosizing Rowan, Rice engages only briefly with the author and his text, preferring
instead to focus on broader U.S. imperialist I developments. Following Rowan from his early days at West Point to his later command during the
Moro Rebellion, Rice interweaves personal and national history to outline major shifts in expansionist activity under McKinley and Roosevelt.
This book is not a biography: Rice scrupulously attends to detail, but he offers limited analysis of Rowan's character or the significance behind his
exploits. Readers who thrill to the particulars of life in military camps will find much to enjoy here; those hoping for a sustained critique of U.S.
diplomacy may be less satisfied. (Dec.)
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"Cast in Deathless Bronze: Andrew Rowan, the Spanish-American War, and the Origins of American Empire." Publishers Weekly, 31 Oct. 2016,
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