Polk's folly
an American family history
1st ed.
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Word Count
128,000 words, Guess
Page Count
512 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL37431M
- ISBN-100385491506
- OCLC Control Number40940210
- OCLC Control Numberpolksfollyameric00polk
- Library of Congress Control Number99024552
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- Goodreads6306842
- LibraryThing18103
Classifications
- DDC973
- LCCE179 .P76 2000
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.
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