Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the Powerless Woman Who Took on Washington
I'll take my share of the blame. I only ask that he take his.In Bringing Down the Colonel, the journalist Patricia Miller tells the story of Madeline Pollard, an unlikely nineteenth-century women's rights crusader. After an affair with a prominent politician left her ruined, Pollard brought the man-and the hypocrisy of America's control of women's sexuality-to trial. And, surprisingly, she won.Pollard and the married Colonel Breckinridge began their decade-long affair when she was just a teenager. After the death of his wife, Breckinridge asked for Pollard's hand-and then broke off the engagement to marry another woman. But Pollard struck bac…
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- ISBN: 978-1-250-23491-9
- EAN: 9781250234919
- Produktnummer: 29547624
- Verlag: Picador
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 400 S.
- Masse: H20.1 cm x B13.5 cm x D2.8 cm 318 g
- Gewicht: 318
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