Title: Sam Houston Author: Haley James L. Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press Binding: Paperback Pages: 513 Dimensions: 9.90h x 7.00w x 1.60d Product Weight: 2.35 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9780806136448 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.