Full name: Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America

Author: Walter R. Borneman Year: 2008 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Award winners, Biographies, History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780812976748 0812976746

Biography. 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. Similar books: The Last Founding Father by Harlow Giles Unger The Admirals by Walter R. Borneman Coolidge by Amity Shlaes American Lion by Jon Meacham Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith Thomas Jefferson by Christopher Hitchens Traitor to His Class by H. W. Brands The Passage to Power by Robert A. Caro Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough James K. Polk by John Seigenthaler The Life of Andrew Jackson by Robert V. Remini Reagan by H. W. Brands Chester Alan Arthur by Zachary Karabell Thomas Jefferson by Jon Meacham Twilight at Monticello by Alan Pell Crawford Zeitoun by Dave Eggers There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz Rise to Greatness by David Von Drehle With Malice Toward None by Stephen B. Oates