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"America has long embraced the legend of Andrew Jackson, who inspired the term self-made man. Yet very little is known about his wife, Rachel. For the first time, the story of their love and loss is told from Rachel's less-heard, and often misunderstood, point of view, using letters, documents and historians' expertise"--Container.
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Scope and content: Originally begun in 1937, and completed in 1962, John B. Beckett's "Empty Honors" is a fictional account of a feud between the Donnovan and Roy families in the early settlement period of Tennessee, and along the way includes "thumb-nail sketches of many renown people of Tennessee, war heroes, and legends" and poems. The typescript is divided into four parts, and an outline of each part is included at the beginning of the typescript....
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Scope and content: Three radio scripts about Andrew Jackson's life for the program, "Cavalcade of America," sponsored by the DuPont Manufacturing Company. The scripts also include ads for DuPont and its products.
"The Gorgeous Hussy," starring Paulette Goddard and based upon a book of the same name by Samuel Hopkins Adams, tells about the so-called "Eaton Affair" (or "Petticoat Affair"). When recently widowed Peggy Timberlake married Jackson's Secretary...