{"product_id":"book-calq","title":"Bringing Down the Colonel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"I'll take my share of the blame. I only ask that he take his.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBringing Down the Colonel\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNearly 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 Using newspaper articles, personal journals, previously unpublished autobiographies, and letters, \u003ci\u003eBringing Down the Colonel \u003c\/i\u003etells the story of one of the earliest women to publicly fight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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49378149564720,"sku":"BDcalq","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/calq-cover.jpg?v=1761354638","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-calq","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}