MAGNIFICENT DESTINY by PAUL WELLMAN - 1962

garden city, N.Y: doubleday, 1962. Hard cover. Good in good dust jacket. MAGNIFICENT DESTINY BY PAUL WELLMAN-1962 COPYRIGHT-NOVEL ABOUT THE GREAT SECRET ADVENTURES OF ANDREW JACKSON & SAM HOUSTON-HARDCOVER IN DUST JACKET CONDITION GOOD44 PAGES--BOOK REVIEW; There is a lot of American(and Texas... 444 p. MAGNIFICENT DESTINY BY PAUL WELLMAN-1962 COPYRIGHT-NOVEL ABOUT THE GREAT SECRET ADVENTURES OF ANDREW JACKSON & SAM HOUSTON-HARDCOVER IN DUST JACKET CONDITION GOOD44 PAGES--BOOK REVIEW; There is a lot of American(and Texas)history here, all told within MAGNIFICENT DESTINY BY PAUL WELLMAN-1962 COPYRIGHT-NOVEL ABOUT THE GREAT SECRET ADVENTURES OF ANDREW JACKSON & SAM HOUSTON-HARDCOVER IN DUST JACKET CONDITION GOOD 44 PAGES--BOOK REVIEW; There is a lot of American(and Texas)history here, all told within the framwork of the special relationship/friendship of Andrew Jackson and Sam Houston. This book will give the reader a new appreciaton for this part of our country's history, how fragile it was in the early days, how it could dhave gone one way or the other had it not been for a few good men and the turn of a few, a very few events. It is interesting, even intriguing, to see American icons such as Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and others demonized as ambitious self-serving villains and less than honorable men because of their opposition to Andrew Jackson. (Proving that mean, dirty, partisan politics weren't invented by Newt Gringrich and Nancy Pelosi! ! ) It is especially interesting, even refreshing, to see how heroes were treated when this book was written (in 1962)