Mythic Galveston
Mythic Galveston: Reinventing America's Third Coast is a 2002 non-fiction book by Susan Hardwick.It discusses the geography and history of Galveston, Texas, published by Johns Hopkins University Press.Bixel criticized unsourced content and a lack of context and argued that historians would not get use out of the book.[1] Patrick H. Butler III of the Virginia Board of Historic Resources felt that the book had use as a history of Galveston but that it "fails to carry out many of its goals" with the portions about the city in the 20th century being "The most disappointing element" due to being underdeveloped.[2] Peter J. Hugill of Texas A&M University criticized the book for being "unfocused and often careless" and in conclusion stated the work "is an almost total failure.