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: 978-0-374-25266-3
- EAN: 9780374252663
- Produktnummer: 23250297
- Verlag: Farrar Strauss & Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Masse: H22.6 cm x B16.0 cm x D3.6 cm 635 g
- Gewicht: 635
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Patricia Miller
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