Houston: The Feast Years. An Illustrated Essay

In the feverish years after World War II, Houston underwent one of the most dramatic transformations in American urban history. George Fuermann captured this moment in a luminous photo essay that reads like a love letter to a city that couldn't stop growing. The book documents Houston's metamorphosis from a regional hub into a global energy capital, with the oil fields and the newly minted NASA complex serving as twin engines of impossible ambition. Fuermann's photographs and prose trace a city reinventing itself at breathtaking speed, where fortunes were made overnight and the skyline changed monthly. But this isn't just about industry. It's about the particular swagger of a place that believed anything was possible, where cowboys and engineers drank at the same bars and the future felt not just attainable but inevitable. The Feast Years captures Houston at its most vital, before the oil busts and the hurricanes, when the city existed in a state of perpetual promise.