Sam Houston, the Great Designer

by Llerena Friend

Overview

This biography of Sam Houston goes beyond the romantic frontier life of the "buckskin hero from Tennessee" to examine seriously his role as an American statesman.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780292789111
Publisher:	University of Texas Press
Publication date:	06/28/2010
Series:	Texas History Paperbacks , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	408
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Llerena B. Friend (1903–1995) was a historian and teacher.

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• The Tennessee Background
• The Indian Interlude
• Opportunist in Texas
• General Houston
• Houston’s Republic
• More Coy than Forward: Diplomacy of Annexation
• Senator Houston of Texas
• Alone in the Senate
• Aspirations to the Presidency
• For Love of the Union
• Bibliography
• Index

Editorial Reviews

Finally, let it be emphasized that Sam Houston—the national statesman, the skilled politician, the ever-so-human and many-sided man—walks and talks, man-like, in this biography.

American Historical Review

This biography, the most nearly definitive that has yet appeared, suggests that Sam Houston must be numbered with the great.

Southwestern Historical Quarterly

Rarely does a book appear concerning a period so remote that should correct so much current error.

New York Times

Finally, let it be emphasized that Sam Houston--the national statesman, the skilled politician, the ever-so-human and many-sided man--walks and talks, man-like, in this biography.-- "American Historical Review"

Rarely does a book appear concerning a period so remote that should correct so much current error.-- "New York Times"

This biography, the most nearly definitive that has yet appeared, suggests that Sam Houston must be numbered with the great.-- "Southwestern Historical Quarterly"

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