WALTER R. BORNEMAN
 
 

Walter R. Borneman’s latest book on American history is Brothers Down: Pearl Harbor and the Fate of the Many Brothers Aboard the USS Arizona.


Others include

Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land (HarperCollins, 2003);

1812: The War That Forged a Nation (HarperCollins, 2004);

The French and Indian War (HarperCollins, 2006);

Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America (Random House, 2008); The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King (Little, Brown, 2012); American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution (Little, Brown, 2014); and

MacArthur at War: World War II in the Pacific

(Little, Brown, 2016).

Borneman is also known in Colorado’s mountains as the co-author of A Climbing Guide to Colorado’s Fourteeners, the history and standard routes of Colorado’s 54 peaks above 14,000 feet, which was in-print for twenty-five years. 

 














My overriding goal in writing history has been to get the facts straight and then present them in a readable fashion. I am convinced that knowing history is not just about appreciating the past, but also about understanding the present and planning for the future.


Walt has undergraduate and graduate degrees in history

from Western State College of Colorado (1974, 1975) and

wrote his master’s thesis on a town characteristic of the

western mining frontier. Borneman received his law

degree from the University of Denver (1981). He has won

awards from the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New

York, the Tennessee Library Association and Historical Commission, the Colorado Humanities Program, and the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature. His commentary has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Washington Post.


E-mail him at walterborneman@mac.com