Sam Houston
(James L. Haley)
Sam Houston is known as a colossus, a larger than life American hero, similar to those figures of antiquity, which he so admired.
Such was Houston?s tumultuous, hectic and incredible life has frequently proven too great a challenge to those biographers who have previous sought to write his entire history. Due to the lack of knowledge about large portions of his life, writers like Marquis James were in the past forced to resort to speculation.
Too often, their own prejudices affected their portrayals of Houston, the politician, the soldier and the man.
Now, noted, Panhandle historian James L. Haley has successfully written the most complete and definitive biography of Houston that this world has ever seen and he has done so in a most fair and balanced fashion.
Mr. Haley has availed himself of the most recently discovered documents and letters of that period; he has obviously researched tirelessly to bring to the light of day the facts about Houston?s disastrous first marriage, and his sojourns among the Cherokee Indians.
Mr. Haley also brings a postmodern perspective to his interpretations of Houston?s actions in the war for Texan independence and his dealings with the Indigenous tribes, as President of Texas, are a refreshing change from the tedious self-flagellating revisionism of many Caucasian historians.
In his extremely readable biography, Mr. Haley presents the whole Sam Houston, complete with flaws, and those compensating virtues and accomplishments that made him great.
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