Polk's folly : an American family history / William R. Polk.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0385491506
- ISBN: 9780385491501
- Physical Description: xxxi, 512 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: 1st edition
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, 2000.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-495) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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" -- Revolution "The Colonists are not a Conquered People" -- Young Republic "That Hydra Democracy" -- Presidency "Mr. Polk's War" -- Old South "We build forever" -- 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." |
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| Subject: | Polk family. Polk. United States > History. |
Additional Physical Form Titles
| Polk's folly. Polk's folly. |
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- 11 of 13 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Hamlet Public Library | 973 P (Text) | 58198000113418 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Hampton B. Allen Library | R 973.02 P (Text) | 18198000015141 | Adult Reference | Available | - |
| Moore County Library | 973 P (Text) | 48198000931580 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
