Bringing Down the Colonel 2018

"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"--

Released

November 13, 2018

Author

Patricia Miller

Pages

384

ISBN

9780374252663

Book details from Hardcover