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- catalog abstract "Traces 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.".
- catalog contributor b11504885.
- catalog coverage "United States History.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Polk Family Members -- Departure "All the Tryles, Hardships, and Dangers of the Seas" -- Arrival "Polk's Folly" -- Westward from Maryland "The Young Chief of the Long Knife" -- The Revolution "The Colonists are not a Conquered People" -- The Young Republic "That Hydra Democracy" -- The Presidency "Mr. Polk's War" -- The Old South "We build forever" -- The Civil War "This hideous carnival of Death" -- Revolution and Diaspora "When things go wrong, go west" -- War, Boom and Bust "The worst of enemies" -- America in a New World "They die often in abject fear in the dirt."".
- catalog description "Traces 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.".
- catalog extent "xxxi, 512 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Polk's folly.".
- catalog identifier "0385491506".
- catalog isFormatOf "Polk's folly.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Doubleday,".
- catalog relation "Polk's folly.".
- catalog spatial "United States History.".
- catalog subject "973 21".
- catalog subject "E179 .P76 2000".
- catalog subject "Polk family.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Polk Family Members -- Departure "All the Tryles, Hardships, and Dangers of the Seas" -- Arrival "Polk's Folly" -- Westward from Maryland "The Young Chief of the Long Knife" -- The Revolution "The Colonists are not a Conquered People" -- The Young Republic "That Hydra Democracy" -- The Presidency "Mr. Polk's War" -- The Old South "We build forever" -- The Civil War "This hideous carnival of Death" -- Revolution and Diaspora "When things go wrong, go west" -- War, Boom and Bust "The worst of enemies" -- America in a New World "They die often in abject fear in the dirt."".
- catalog title "Polk's folly : an American family history / William R. Polk.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".