Sam Houston, the Great Designer
408 pages, 6 x 9
Paperback
Release Date:01 Jan 1954
ISBN:9780292784222
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.
Rarely does a book appear concerning a period so remote that should correct so much current error.
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.
This biography, the most nearly definitive that has yet appeared, suggests that Sam Houston must be numbered with the great.
Llerena B. Friend (1903–1995) was a historian and teacher.
- 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
