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William R. Polk

Born

in Fort Worth, Texas, The United States

March 07, 1929

Genre

History, Politics, Memoir

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William R. Polk taught Arabic literature and history at Harvard University and the University of Chicago, served on the Policy Planning Council under President Kennedy, negotiated the Egyptian-Israeli Suez ceasefire, and founded the Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs. He has written nineteen books.

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	Understanding Iraq: The Whole Sweep of Iraqi History, from Genghis Khan's Mongols to the Ottoman Turks to the British Mandate to the American Occupation 3.72 avg rating — 322 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Understanding Iran: Everything You Need to Know, From Persia to the Islamic Republic, From Cyrus to Khamenei 3.89 avg rating — 261 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Violent Politics: A History of Insurgency, Terrorism, and Guerrilla War, from the American Revolution to Iraq 4.07 avg rating — 181 ratings — published 2007 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Birth of America: From Before Columbus to the Revolution 3.66 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2006 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War Between the Muslim World and the Global North 4.22 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2018 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Polk's Folly: An American Family History 3.63 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Neighbors and Strangers: The Fundamentals of Foreign Affairs 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Arab World Today 3.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1975 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Passing Brave by William R. Polk, William J. Mares it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1973 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blind Man's Buff 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Even if we, as northerners, choose to ignore this history, the victims’ descendants [of the global south] will not. Muslims, like Jews, increasingly probe into and publicize their holocaust. The “deep past” already plays a significant role in the growth of Muslim sentiment toward the Christian North. It will play an important role in international affairs far into the future”
― William R. Polk, Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War Between the Muslim World and the Global North

tags: collective-memory, colonialsim, history, holocaust, imperialism, white-supremacy

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“Even if we, as northerners, choose to ignore this history, the victims’ descendants will not”
― William R. Polk, Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War Between the Muslim World and the Global North

tags: collective-memory, genocide, history, holocaust, imperialism, white-supremacy

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“the Mongol rulers of what became Iran, a few Christian”
― William R. Polk, Understanding Iran: Everything You Need to Know, From Persia to the Islamic Republic, From Cyrus to Ahmadinejad

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