In this acclaimed biographical novel, Irving Stone brings to life the tender and poignant love story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson. "Beyond any doubt one of the great romances of all time." — The Saturday Review of Literature

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....