Sam Houston
A Biography, Nonfiction, History book. I have no hope for Sam, he sighed. He is so wild.5 James L. Haley,...
In the decades preceding the Civil War, few figures in the United States were as influential or as controversial as Sam Houston. In Sam Houston, James L. Haley explores Houston’s momentous career and the complex man behind it. Haley’s fifteen years of research and writing have produced possibly the most complete, most personal, and most readable Sam Houston biography ever written. Drawn from personal papers never before available as well as the papers of others in Houston’s circle, this biography will delight anyone intrigued by Sam Houston, Texas history, Civil War history, or America’s tradition of rugged individualism.Sam Houston is the winner of numerous awards, including:T. R. Fehrenbach Book Award, Texas Historical CommissionCoral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize, Texas State Historical AssociationSpur Award, Biography, Western Writers of America
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- Pages: 544 pages
- ISBN: 9780806136448 / 806136448
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in sum, he had been satisfied reading Homers Odyssey instead of setting off to create his own? James L. Haley, Sam Houston // I have no hope for Sam, he sighed. He is so wild.5 James L. Haley, Sam Houston // Bear in mind, he once wrote a correspondent, that all Histories from the Rock of Plymouth, and Jamestown to the present time, have been made by white men, and a man who tells his own story, is always right until the adversarys tale is told James L. Haley, Sam Houston //
Well-written, but not in a novelistic or page-turner sense. The author seems to be writing mainly for persons who already know Sam Houston's life story in a broad sense and who simply want more detail. Thus, some of Houston's major life events are presented with neither buildup or climax (as in a biography aimed more at the general... A good overview of Sam Houston's life. He was a man who stood up for his principles, but was very much a politician. The book is well-written and very informative, but I'm only giving it 3 stars because it's correct to say that I "liked it," but not more than that. Overall it ran on the longish side for my taste, but if you're needing a resource about Sam Houston or Texas history in general, this would be a good one to turn to.
