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BRINGING DOWN THE COLONEL
A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age and the ‘Powerless’ Woman Who Took On Washington
Author: Patricia Miller
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Price: $28
Pages: 368
It was on a fateful train ride in 1884 that Col. William Breckinridge, a Kentucky congressional candidate described by his supporters as a silver-tongued orator with presidential prospects, met Madeline Pollard, a student with literary ambitions. She asked for his help in a personal matter. He visited her at school. They went on a carriage ride. Then stuff happened, including the birth of two children, and a
