Walter R. Borneman (born January 5, 1952), is an American historian and lawyer. He is the author of well-known popular books on 18th and 19th century United States history.^[1][2]

Education

He received his B.A. in 1974 from Western State College of Colorado, and received an M.A. in history there in 1975 for a thesis on "Irwin : silver camp of the Ruby Mountains";^[3] in 1981 he received a J.D. degree from the University of Denver, and practiced law.

Career

In May 2012, his work The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King—The 5-star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea was published by Little, Brown and Co.^[4] It won the 2013 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature.^[5][6] In April 2009, Random House Trade Paperbacks published his biography of James K. Polk, the eleventh President of the United States: Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America.ISBN 978-0812976748

He also wrote the book, American Spring which covers the Revolutionary War from its onset to the Battle of Bunker Hill. His latest book is MacArthur at War: World War II in the Pacific.^[7]

He has also written several books about mountaineering in Colorado, where he currently lives.

His works

History

• Borneman, Walter R. Iron Horse: America's Race to Bring the Railroads West. New York: Back Bay Books, 2014.^[8]
• Borneman, Walter R. Rival Rails: The Race to Build America's Greatest Transcontinental Railroad. New York: Random House, 2010.^[9]
  • Review, Los Angeles Times - Oct 3, 2010
  • Review BusinessWeek - Oct 20, 2010
• Borneman, Walter R. Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America. New York: Random House, 2008 ISBN 978-1-4000-6560-8 ^[10]
  • Review Wall Street Journal Online - May 16, 2008
• Borneman, Walter R. The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2006. ISBN 978-0-06-076184-4 .^[11]
  • Review, The New York Times book review. (December 17, 2006): 14
  • Review, Providence Journal - Jan 28, 2007
• Borneman, Walter R. 1812: The War That Forged a Nation. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2004. ISBN 978-0-06-053112-6.^[12]
• Borneman, Walter R. Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.^[13]
  • Translated into Russian as Borneman, Walter R, V V. Monakhov, and L A. Rusova. Сага о земле Аляска / Saga o zemle Ali︠a︡ska. Vladivostok: Dalʹnauka, 2009. OCLC 704059097.
  • Review, Juneau Empire - Apr 13, 2003

Colorado

• Borneman, Walter R. and Lampert, Lyndon J. A Climbing Guide to Colorado’s Fourteeners: The Classic Guide to Colorado's Fourteeners, Boulder, CO: Pruett Publishing Company, 1994.^[14]