Walter R. Borneman Explained

Walter R. Borneman
Birth Date:	5 January 1952

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.

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 ^[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. .^[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. .^[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]

Notes and References

1. http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n78-16544 World Cat authority file
2. Contemporary authors new revision series. : Volume 225. Gale, 2012 . WorldCat
3. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/763323763 WorldCat
4. Borneman, Walter R. The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King--the Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea. New York: Little, Brown and Co, 2012.
5. Web site: Latest NOUS Awards . . December 23, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170603021019/https://www.navalorder.org/awards-given/ . 2017-06-03 . live.
6. Web site: Previous Morison Book Awards. Naval Order of the United States, New York Commandery . December 23, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160827031557/http://www.navalordernyc.org/previous-morison-book-awards . 2016-08-27 . live.
7. Borneman, Walter R. MacArthur at War: World War II in the Pacific. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2016.
8. https://www.worldcat.org/title/871788467 WorldCat
9. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/488730790 WorldCat
10. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123232239 WorldCat
11. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/062593861 WorldCat
12. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/054677795 WorldCat
13. 9780060503062 WorldCat
14. https://www.worldcat.org/title/39060535 WorldCat