The Story of New San Diego and of Its Founder, Alonzo E. Horton

The book is not just the story of the energy and growth of a man. It is the relation of the progress of a city-sometimes booming, sometimes faltering. Like its progenitor, the city stumbles forward, staggers backward, hesitantly plunges ahead once again, surges on the crest of the waves, suffers the vicissitudes of the ebb tide, then revives as if a blood transfusion had been administered.