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Author | Patricia Miller |
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Language | English |
Genre | Biography |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Publication date | 2018 |
Publication place | United States |
Pages | 368 |
ISBN | 978-0-3742-5266-3 |
Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took On Washington is a 2018 book by Patricia Miller, a journalist for Religion Dispatches. [1] The book describes the late-19th-century political sex scandal between Kentucky politician William Breckinridge and Madeline Pollard, a student. It details the affair and subsequent legal battle over Breckinridge's breach of contract, and discusses the resulting change in public opinion towards women and sex. [2] [3] [4]
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Author | Patricia Miller |
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Language | English |
Genre | Biography |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Publication date | 2018 |
Publication place | United States |
Pages | 368 |
ISBN | 978-0-3742-5266-3 |
Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took On Washington is a 2018 book by Patricia Miller, a journalist for Religion Dispatches. [1] The book describes the late-19th-century political sex scandal between Kentucky politician William Breckinridge and Madeline Pollard, a student. It details the affair and subsequent legal battle over Breckinridge's breach of contract, and discusses the resulting change in public opinion towards women and sex. [2] [3] [4]