World Economy and International Affairs of the Soviet (now Russian) Academy of Sciences, as well at over a hundred universities and colleges. William Polk was also the foreign policy adviser for Democratic candidate Dennis Kucinich's presidential campaign. Personal life and death Polk was married to Joan Cooledge from 1950 until their divorce in 1960. He then married Ann Cross in 1962 and they divorced in 1975. Polk then married Baroness Elisabeth von Oppenheimer in 1981. He had three daughters, a son, and eight grandchildren. Polk died from leukemia on April 6, 2020, in Vence, France, at the age of 91. Books Backdrop to Tragedy: The Struggle for Palestine (1957). coauthors William R. Polk, David M. Stamler, and Edmund Asfour. Beacon Press online edition The Opening of South Lebanon, 1788-1840: A Study of the Impact of The West on the Middle East (1963). Harvard University Press The United States and the Arab World (1965). Harvard University Press, 3rd edition 1975: The Arab World. 4th edition 1980, hardcover: , paperback: The Arab World Today. 5th edition 1991, Beginnings of Modernization in the Middle East: The Nineteenth Century (1968). University of Chicago Press, Passing Brave (1973). Alfred Knopf, reprint Panda Press 2013 The Golden Ode by Labid Ibn Rabiah. Translated with an Introduction and Commentary by William R. Polk (1974). University of Chicago Press, The Elusive Peace: The Middle East in the Twentieth Century (1979). Palgrave Macmillan, Neighbors and Strangers: The Fundamentals of Foreign Affairs (1997). University Of Chicago Press, Polk's Folly: An American Family History (2000). Doubleday, , Anchor paperback 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 (2005). HarperCollins hardcover: , paperback: The Birth of America: From Before Columbus to the Revolution (2006). HarperCollins hardcover: Out of Iraq: A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now (2006). coauthor George McGovern, Simon & Schuster paperback: Violent Politics: A History of Insurgency, Terrorism, and Guerrilla War, from the American Revolution to Iraq (2007). HarperCollins hardcover: Understanding Iran: Everything You Need to Know, From Persia to the Islamic Republic, From Cyrus to Ahmadinejad (2009). Palgrave * *Macmillan hardcover: References External links Homepage of William R. Polk, with articles. "Iraq: A New Leaf" by William R. Polk, from New York Review of Books February 18, 1999. Interview of Polk about his book Polk's Folly by Chicago Public Radio, April 27, 2000,