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Title: Houston: The Unknown City, 1836-1946 by Marguerite Johnston ISBN: 0-89096-476-9 Publisher: Texas A&M University Press Pub. Date: December, 1991 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: Ridiculous
Comment: This was one of the worst histories I have ever read. I finally had to put it down after finishing about 250 of its 400 pages, because I thought I might go insane if I continued.

The book consists largely of recitation of facts, repetition of thousands of names of old Houston families, and constant musings about how wonderful Houston was in those old, carefree days. (The author even writes that in those simpler, happy times no one complained about Houston summers.)

She has researched her subject thoroughly, talking with hundreds of people who can recall the city in the early 20th century; but there's hardly any context or analysis for this blob of material. It's just thrown out there in this haze of "the wonderful old days."

Yes, one can parse through all the verbiage about how much fun it was to go the park, sail in the bay, etc. etc., and pick up some useful morsels about the facts behind Houston's growth and development.

But they are few and far between.

Rating: 5
Summary: enlightening
Comment: I found this book to be full of rich history. It helped me to understand not only the evolution of an oil town, but to relate to American history in a more detailed way.

Rating: 4
Summary: Get to Know Houston's Roots
Comment: In an achademic style, Margurite Johnson leads us through a description of Houston as a small Gulf Coast community to a thriving Port City backed by the oil investment. She does a great deal to enrich the readers knowledge of Texas metropolitan outlook on it's relationship to it's environment. It serves as a good primer for further research.

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