{"product_id":"bringing-down-the-colonel-patricia-miller-9781250234919","title":"Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the Powerless Woman Who Took on Washington","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"I'll take my share of the blame. I only ask that he take his.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBringing Down the Colonel\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePollard 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 \u003ci\u003eanother\u003c\/i\u003e woman. But Pollard struck back, suing Breckinridge for breach of promise in a shockingly public trial. With premarital sex considered irredeemably ruinous for a woman, Pollard was asserting the unthinkable: that the sexual morality of men and women should be judged equally. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Nearly 125 years after the Breckinridge-Pollard scandal, America is still obsessed with women's sexual morality. And in the age of Donald Trump and Harvey Weinstein, we've witnessed fraught public reckonings with a type of sexual exploitation unnervingly similar to that experienced by Pollard. Using newspaper articles, personal journals, previously unpublished autobiographies, and letters, \u003ci\u003eBringing Down the Colonel \u003c\/i\u003etells the story of one of the earliest women to publicly fight back.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patricia Miller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1250234913\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250234919\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/03\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.30w x 1.10d","brand":"Patricia Miller","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43924560052479,"sku":"9781250234919","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_287e1625-7bbe-434b-b330-9acb35885f73.jpg?v=1681072131","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bringing-down-the-colonel-patricia-miller-9781250234919","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}