- Paperback: 139 pages
- Publisher: Bison Books (Oct 1 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0803266251
- ISBN-13: 978-0803266254
- Product Dimensions: 2 x 1.3 x 0.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 177 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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In 1896 William Randolph Hearst sent journalist Richard Harding Davis to Cuba to observe the guerrilla warfare being waged against Spain and to inquire into reports of atrocities. Hearst wanted to boost circulation of his recently purchased New York Journal by filling his paper with accounts of rapine and brutality.
Initially, Davis noted in his articles that fighting, as in most wars, created unpleasantness, and neither side deserved accolades for decency. Nevertheless, Davis proved influential in drawing the United States into the war when he began to condemn Spanish actions in print. His anger at Spain stemmed primarily from Spanish boardings of American vessels in Cuban waters rather than from the supposed atrocities that other reporters were vigorously documenting—or making up entirely—to stir up anti-Spanish sentiments in the states.
This Bison Books edition of Davis's influential 1898 book, beautifully illustrated by Frederic Remington, traces a journalist's abandonment of objectivity and serves as a cautionary tale of the media's—and the public's—susceptibility to grossly sensational accounts of death, pestilence, famine, and war.
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Richard Harding Davis (1864–1916) was an influential novelist and journalist. Introducer Matthew M. Oyos is an assistant professor of history at Radford University.
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When the revolution broke out in Cuba two years ago, the Spaniards at once began to build tiny forts, and continued to add to these and improve those already built, until now the whole island, which is eight hundred miles long and averages eighty miles in width, is studded as thickly with these little forts as is the sole of a brogan with iron nails. Read the first page
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When the revolution broke out in Cuba two years ago, the Spaniards at once began to build tiny forts, and continued to add to these and improve those already built, until now the whole island, which is eight hundred miles long and averages eighty miles in width, is studded as thickly with these little forts as is the sole of a brogan with iron nails. Read the first page
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Not exactly what I expected,
By Montreal Book Collector "MBC" (Montreal, QC, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cuba in War Time (Hardcover)
The book was delivered on time and in good condition. However, this edition did not contain the illustrations, which were important to me. Looking back at Amazon.ca, I see that the illustrations were not explicitly mentioned, but it didn't occur to me that a publisher would remove them. Had I known, I would have purchased a different edition.
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