Madeleine Pollard, from a Lexington family, charmed her way into Washington, D.C.’s elite society, and by age 17, tumbled into a ten-year affair with Kentucky Congressman William C.P. Breckinridge. Eventually, he tossed her aside and married someone else. And that sets the scene of a remarkable true account, "Alias Agnes" by Elizabeth DeWolfe. She talks with Eastern Standard Literary Contributor Kevin Nance.