Walter R. Borneman. (2009). Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America. Random House Publishing Group.

Walter R. Borneman. 2009. Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America. Random House Publishing Group.

Walter R. Borneman, Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America. Random House Publishing Group, 2009.

Walter R. Borneman. Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America. Random House Publishing Group, 2009.

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   • bioText: Walter R. Borneman is the author of several books, including Polk, 1812: The War That Forged a Nation, The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America, and Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land. He is the president of the Walter V. and Idun Y. Berry Foundation, which funds postdoctoral fellowships in children’s health at Stanford University.
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In Polk, Walter R. Borneman gives us the first complete and authoritative biography of a president often overshadowed in image but seldom outdone in accomplishment. James K. Polk occupied the White House for only four years, from 1845 to 1849, but he plotted and attained a formidable agenda: He fought for and won tariff reductions, reestablished an independent Treasury, and, most notably, brought Texas into the Union, bluffed Great Britain out of the lion’s share of Oregon, and wrested California and much of the Southwest from Mexico. On reflection, these successes seem even more impressive, given the contentious political environment of the time.
In this unprecedented, long-overdue warts-and-all look at Polk’s life and career, we have a portrait of an expansionist president and decisive statesman who redefined the country he led, and we are reminded anew of the true meaning of presidential accomplishment and resolve.

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   • source: Robert Middlekauff, Bancroft Prize-winning author of The Glorious Cause
   • content: "Borneman gives us a book that is full of interest and insight and is a pleasure to read."
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   • source: Wall Street Journal
   • content: "[An] informed and readable biography."
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   • source: Louisville Courier-Journal
   • content: "Borneman is a trailblazer in the mold of his subject [and has produced] a volume that can stand with all but the very best presidential biographies."
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   • source: Austin American Statesman
   • content: "With impressive exuberance . . . Borneman rightly describes his subject as America's greatest expansionist president."
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   • content: "Borneman manages to pull [many] threads together into a comprehensible and entertaining narrative. . . . [His] biography gives Polk his due."
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     February 4, 2008
     Tennessee Democrat James K. Polk is generally ranked among the nation's most effective chief executives. In this straightforward, unnuanced biography, Borneman (1812: The War That Forged a Nation
     ) relates why. Coming into office determined to annex Texas, gain the Oregon Territory from Britain, lower the tariff and reform the national banking system, Polk achieved all four aims in his single term in office (1845–1849). But Borneman overlooks that in more or less completing the nation's lower continental territory, Polk bequeathed a fateful legacy to the nation—not so much transforming the U.S. (as the subtitle overstates) as setting it on the road to civil war. With the annexation of Texas came war with Mexico, which stripped that nation of half its lands while gaining the U.S. the southwest and California. It also unloosed the mad genie of slavery's possible further spread westward. Polk left the nation larger but politically crippled and morally weakened. But Borneman sticks to the narrative and doesn't place his subject in a larger historical context. 'Tis a pity, for Polk's administration ought to be a lesson to all candidates and all presidents at all times. 16 maps.

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