Bringing Down the Colonel

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

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Hardback (13 Nov 2018)

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Publisher's Synopsis

"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"--.

Book information

ISBN: 9780374252663
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Imprint: Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub date:
Edition: First edition
DEWEY: 973.80922
DEWEY edition: 23
Number of pages: 368 , 8 unnumbered of plates
Weight: 612g
Height: 235mm
Width: 160mm
Spine width: 30mm