I think Borneman demonstrates an angle of history we miss today, even in teaching. The art of past antidotes, of character, of Halsey almost being removed from the Naval Academy due to chain smoking.
Hey I am no expert in writing. Publishers avoid me like MacArthur did the Philippines until '44.
If any student wants to be there now, understand Presentism (connecting past traits to current ones), then Walter Boreneman is a man of distinction. He reminds me of one of my fond Professors of Naval History, Dr. Clark G. Reynolds, of The College of Charleston.
Godspeed,
Doc C