Gave up after a chapter and a half, largely because of infractions like this: “‘Not long after that year, the salt dome oil field known as Spindletop was producing more than over seventeen million barrels a year, while sparking a regional boom as other fields also yielded black gold.‘”
Walter Cronkite deserves better. Heck, he wrote better. Save yourself some time and money and go read one of his memoirs rather than this badly written piffle.