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.
in history there in 1975 for a thesis on "Irwin : silver camp of the Ruby Mountains";[3] in 1981 he received a J.D.
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.