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A Message to Garcia: A Classic Essay on Initiative and Personal Responsibility
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781617202155
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: Jan 26 2011
Pages: 42
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
Elbert Hubbard's A Message to Garcia is one of the most famous short works ever written on initiative, responsibility, and the ability to carry a task through without excuses. Built around the story of Lieutenant Andrew Summers Rowan carrying a message to General Calixto GarcÃa during the Spanish-American War, Hubbard's essay became a compact parable of action, reliability, and self-directed effort. Its central question is not military but moral and practical: who can be trusted to take responsibility, understand the mission, and get the work done?
The essay's force lies in its simplicity. Hubbard contrasts the person who waits for instruction, explanation, supervision, and reassurance with the person who accepts a necessary task and sees it through. That message made A Message to Garcia a favourite of employers, teachers, soldiers, salesmen, business leaders, and readers of classic motivational literature. It is brisk, direct, opinionated, and unmistakably of its age, yet its core concern remains recognisable wherever work depends on judgment, persistence, and personal accountability.
This Sublime Books edition presents a concise classic of practical philosophy, success literature, and character formation. For readers interested in personal responsibility, initiative, leadership, work ethic, motivational classics, business self-improvement, and the history of American inspirational writing, A Message to Garcia remains a sharp little book about doing what matters without needing to be pushed at every step.
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