{"product_id":"bringing-down-the-colonel-a-sex-scandal-of-the-gilded-age-and-the-powerless-woman-who-took-on-washington-paperback","title":"Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the Powerless Woman Who Took on Washington - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePatricia Miller\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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 Using newspaper articles, personal journals, previously unpublished autobiographies, and letters, \u003ci\u003eBringing Down the Colonel \u003c\/i\u003etells the story of one of the earliest women to publicly fight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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatricia Miller\u003c\/b\u003e is a journalist and an editor who has written extensively about the intersection of politics, sex, and religion. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Huffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRH Reality Check\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMs.\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. She is a senior correspondent for \u003ci\u003eReligion Dispatches\u003c\/i\u003e, where she writes about the politics of sexuality and the Catholic Church. She was formerly the editor of \u003ci\u003eConscience \u003c\/i\u003emagazine and the editor in chief of \u003ci\u003eNational Journal\u003c\/i\u003e's daily health-care briefings, including the \u003ci\u003eKaiser Daily Reproductive Health Report \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e American Healthline\u003c\/i\u003e. She has a master's in journalism from New York University and is based in Washington, D.C. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePatricia is the author of \u003ci\u003eGood Catholics: The Battle Over Abortion in the Catholic Church\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the \"Powerless\" Woman Who Took On Washington\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 7.9 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 03, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50967705092402,"sku":"9781250234919","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0961\/1608\/0946\/files\/GdIpeSO9v9781250234919.webp?v=1773255073","url":"https:\/\/deskinlawfirm.com\/products\/bringing-down-the-colonel-a-sex-scandal-of-the-gilded-age-and-the-powerless-woman-who-took-on-washington-paperback","provider":"DLF Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}