Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the Powerless Woman Who Took on Washington

by Patricia Miller

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"The story of the 1890s scandal in which a young woman named Madeline Pollard sued congressman William Campbell Preston Breckenridge for breach of promise. Pollard won the suit, and the mystery of who helped her pay the extravagant legal expenses in order to bring Breckinridge down illuminates a shift in the sexual politics of the Victorian era"--
  • ISBN10 0374252661
  • ISBN13 9780374252663
  • Publish Date 13 November 2018
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Sarah Crichton Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 384
  • Language English