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Bringing Down the Colonel

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Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took On Washington
AuthorPatricia Miller
LanguageEnglish
GenreBiography
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date
2018
Publication placeUnited States
Pages368
ISBN978-0-3742-5266-3

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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