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Elbert Hubbard of East Aurora, N.Y., author of the widely reprinted motivational essay, “A Message to Garcia,” was a forceful and familiar figure on the American scene from 1895 until his death in 1915. A brilliant, comely and adoring school teacher, Alice Moore, was the abiding love and lift of his life. At first secretly and then openly buoyed by Alice, Hubbard’s career and influence expanded far beyond the field of writing. Skillfully employing Hubbard’s own guarded and unguarded words whenever possible, author Hamilton dramatically, frankly, and with well-documented authenticity, portrays the public and private life of this many-faceted man. Ten years of thorough research checked and double-checked along the way with his close friend and mentor, Elbert Hubbard II (Hubbard’s son), has enabled the author to take his readers back to Hubbard’s day and see him as he really was behind the blinding aura of fame that hid many sides of him form his contemporary critics and admirers alike. He shows how Elbert Hubbard was strangely “turned on” by Alice Moore. They were good for each other before they rightfully belonged to each other and this caused heartbreak for others and for them but they made amends as best humans can. Together these two loved, suffered, achieved and died “as bees in honey drown.”
Hardcover, 253 pages
