Check out myA Message to Garcia book summary and review   that I created to help you understand the basics of this great book.  Message to Garcia (original English title A Message to Garcia) is an essay written by Elbert Hubbard that became two films. It was initially published as an untitled graft in the March 1899 issue of Philistine magazine,

 which he edited, but was soon reprinted as a pamphlet and book. The work became very popular, being translated into 37 languages, and became a well-known allusion in American and European popular and commercial culture until the mid-20th century.

 

Although Hubbard declared, "Here is a man whose form must be immortalized in bronze and his statue erected in all the faculties of the earth," the real intent of the essay had nothing to do with the heroism of the character. On the contrary, it was an exaltation of diligent people with autonomy to carry out tasks.

 For this reason, companies and industries everywhere had copies of the text printed and distributed to their employees, making it an instant hit around the world. Hubbard earned over $250,000 in royalties.

A Message to Garcia book summary

A Message to Garcia (A Message to Garcia in the original English), also known as The Letter to Garcia or simply Letter to Garcia, is a self-improvement text written by Elbert Hubbard in 1899.

In it, first, he briefly recounts the anecdote of the American soldier Rowan, who is called to deliver a message from the president of the United States to the chief of the rebels, hidden in the Cuban mountains, during the Spanish-Spanish War. American in the late nineteenth century.

Hubbard points out that Rowan gets the message and simply delivers it even though no one provided him with any information or means of finding Garcia, so Rowan scours the island of Cuba from coast to coast. Given this, Hubbard proposes, through several other examples, that the application to immediately fulfill the assigned task, without reticence and without hesitation, is the main value to achieve success, especially at work, even more than talent or the erudition.

He concludes by arguing that the world needs "many Rowans" and that there are pending deliveries of many "messages to García", in application of the maxim "doing what has to be done well". According to linguist Charles Earle Funk, "letter to Garcia" has been used in popular culture as an expression that encourages difficult tasks.

In general, it is a piece of writing that highlights the paramount importance of commitment and the will to carry out the tasks that one assumes in work and in life. However, there are also people who think that the power of authority is overvalued and the wisdom of those at the top of the social pyramid is assumed.1

However, historical research indicates that although inspired by the actual event, most of the story is a hyperbolized re-enactment of what actually happened. Rowan at no time had to travel the island on foot as they say, but he was received in the Mora cove by several dozen Cuban independence fighters who knew the coasts of the eastern province and the liberated territories.

 In a general sense, this essay is qualified as an attempt to minimize Cuban participation in the so-called North American Hispanic-Cuban War and at the same time present the Americans as liberators of an island that by then was practically in the hands of the independence forces. .two