Strange Country Ep. 78: Madeline Pollard

In 1893, Madeline Pollard did the unthinkable. She went public with her ruin by filing a lawsuit against her older, married lover Congressman Willie Breckinridge, the silver-tongued orator known for his long-winded speeches about monogamy. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly talk about the double standard that destroyed women's lives and how things are so hunky-dory now. Wait--are they? Theme music: Resting Place by A Cast of Thousands. Cite your sources: "3 Red Flags Of The Damaged Woman." DARK TRIAD MAN®, 14 Dec. 2017, darktriadman.com/2015/11/23/3-red-flags-of-the-damaged-woman/. Dreier, Peter. "Trump And Gingrich: Two Men. Six Wives. Family Values." The Huffington Post, TheHuffingtonPost.com, 7 Dec. 2017, www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/trump-and-gingrich-two-men_b_10689992.html. Ioffe, Julia, et al. "The Millennial's Guide to Newt Gingrich." POLITICO, POLITICO, 14 July 2016, www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/07/2016-newt-gingrich-scandals-accomplishments-veepstakes-running-mate-trump-gop-republican-214050. Miller, Patricia. Bringing down the Colonel: a Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took on Washington. Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. Vermes, Geza. "Mary Was Probably Not a Virgin in the Modern Sense of the Word, Says Geza Vermes." The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 16 Dec. 2006, www.theguardian.com/world/2006/dec/16/religion.commentisfree.