![]() ![]() Rachel's marriage to Lewis Robard, its breakup, and the aftermath with the acceptance of divorce, and its subsequent denial, is frankly presented, and the reader's understanding and sympathies enlisted, never to falter in the years through which the whole wretched drama reared its ugly head whenever Dame Rumor could use it to harm either Jackson or Rachel. ![]() He became a trusted member of the household, and so fell under Rachel Donelson Robard's husband's fanatically jealous suspicions. His upstanding shock of red hair, his ungainly, gaunt figure, his scarred face held small promise of the magnetism that drew some-repelled others. ![]() Jackson appears on the scene as a young aspiring lawyer, brought to the Donelsons by the man with whom he was to be lifelong friends. While the allure of the title (its ironic significance not at first appreciated) is less evident than Immortal Wife the book is, I think, a better book, and the material more compelling in its interest, the characters more appealing. ![]() A biographical novel, dealing- this time- with Andrew Jackson, sure passport to popular favor, and Rachel, whose tragic start to her marriage proved the recurrent stumbling block for the checkered years that followed. ![]()
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