Bringing down the Colonel: a sex scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "powerless" woman who took on Washington

"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...

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1. Verfasser: Miller, Patricia 1964- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Sarah Crichton Books ; Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018
Ausgabe:First edition
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Zusammenfassung:"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"...
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:368 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln Illustrationen
ISBN:9780374252663

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