The Journal of Southern History, November 1st, 2003
Sam Houston. By James L. Haley. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c. 2002. Pp. xxii, 513. $39.95, ISBN 0-8061-3405-4.)
By James L. Haley's count, there have been no fewer than sixty biographies of Sam Houston. But another is needed, he explains, because Houston the man remains an enigma. Haley promises to remedy that situation.
In many ways he succeeds. Nineteen chapters follow the familiar story of Houston's rise in Tennessee politics, his leadership in the Texas Revolution and Republic, and his distinguished career as a Unionist senator and governor. Haley, a novelist and independent ...
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