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 (HarperCollins, 2008);

The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King (Little, Brown, 2012)

American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution (Little, Brown, 2014)

MacArthur at War: World War II in the Pacific (Little, Brown, 2016).

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.

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.

Email him at walterborneman@mac.com