John Seigenthaler

Two weeks ago I met a group called the Nashville History Club, folks who enjoy learning about and discussing many aspects of the city’s past. The club meets, appropriately, in the new visitor center at Fort Negley, a place on the south side of downtown with plenty of its own important history. Jean Roseman had kindly invited me to come speak some months ago, but for various reasons (my travel plans, a new book project that I needed to finish) the event did not happen until the last day of May.

Biography Author John Seigenthaler has written an interesting and informative biography of the eleventh president of the United States, James Knox Polk. James K. Polk Henry Holt & Company, 188 pp. CLR [rating:3] The Birth of the American Empire Author John Seigenthaler has written an interesting and informative biography of the eleventh president of the United States, James Knox Polk.

Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding by Darren Staloff Hill and Wang, 432 pp. CLR [rating:4] Elusive Dreams and Untried Schemes The study of the American founding fathers has become a hothouse industry. The capacity of the American reading public to absorb volume after volume on Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, Franklin, Madison, and others, has no limits in sight.