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: 978-0-374-71562-5
- EAN: 9780374715625
- Produktnummer: 27215300
- Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 21'970 KB
- Abbildungen: 8 Pages of Black-and-White Illustrations / Notes, Bibliography, Index
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