Old Hickory

by Noel B. Gerson

Andrew Jackson is the hero of the thrilling full-scale biographical novel. It's author, Noel B. Gerson, has transformed historical fact into exciting literature, as he vividly chronicles the events in Jackson's long and dramatic life against the colorful background of a young nation just beginning to realize its own strength. (from inside front flap)

372 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1964

About the author

Noel Bertram Gerson (1913-1988) was an American author who wrote 325 books, including several best sellers, among them two screenplay novelizations penned under the pseudonym Samuel Edwards, The Naked Maja, and 55 Days at Peking.

Aside from "Samuel Edwards", which would seem to have been his dedicated by-line for tie-in work, Gerson used the following nine pseudonyms in addition to his own name: Anne Marie Burgess; Michael Burgess; Nicholas Gorham; Paul Lewis; Leon Phillips; Donald Clayton Porter; Dana Fuller Ross; Philip Vail; and Carter A. Vaughan.