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100 1 $aPolk, William Roe,$d1929-
245 10 $aPolk's folly :$ban American family history /$cWilliam R. Polk.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bDoubleday,$c2000.
300 $axxxi, 512 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [431]-495) and index.
520 $aTraces the Polk family history from its beginnings in Ireland with Robert Pollok and his flight to the New World in 1680. Among the accomplished family members are drafters of an early Declaration of Independence, wounded soldiers of the American Revolutionary War, women taken hostage by Indians, land speculators,slaveholding aristocrats and populist crusaders, one of our greatest presidents, Civil War generals and foot soldiers from North and South, a grandfather who shot the sheriff of Laredo and became a cattle baron, the founders of the Wall Street firm Davis Polk, Patton's lead tank commander, Martin Luther King's lawyer, and the author's amazing brother, a World War II Navy pilot and journalist who was the first casualty of the Cold War.
505 00 $tPolk Family Members --$tDeparture "All the Tryles, Hardships, and Dangers of the Seas" --$tArrival "Polk's Folly" --$tWestward from Maryland "The Young Chief of the Long Knife" --$tThe Revolution "The Colonists are not a Conquered People" --$tThe Young Republic "That Hydra Democracy" --$tThe Presidency "Mr. Polk's War" --$tThe Old South "We build forever" --$tThe Civil War "This hideous carnival of Death" --$tRevolution and Diaspora "When things go wrong, go west" --$tWar, Boom and Bust "The worst of enemies" --$tAmerica in a New World "They die often in abject fear in the dirt".
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600 30 $aPolk family.
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776 08 $iOnline version:$aPolk, William Roe, 1929-$tPolk's folly.$b1st ed.$dNew York : Doubleday, 2000$w(OCoLC)607761832
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