Max Boot
Max Boot is the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow for national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, a columnist for The Washington Post, and a bestselling author. His new book, "Reagan: His Life and Legend" is a New York Times bestseller. It has been acclaimed as the "definitive biography" (The New Yorker), "magisterial" and "splendid" (The Washington Post), "enormously readable and scrupulously honest" (The Sunday Times), and a "gripping" book that "stands out for its deep research, lucid prose and command of its subject’s broad political and social context" (The New York Times). His previous biography, The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam (Norton/Liveright, 2018), was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in biography.
Historian, Best-Selling Author, Columnist
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Max Boot's newest book is "Reagan: His Life and Legend,"—an instant New York Times bestseller. The New Yorker writes: “Reagan: His Life and Legend” aims to be the definitive biography, and it succeeds. It’s a thoughtful, absorbing account. It’s also a surprising one." The Washington Post described it as a "vivid portrait" and " the first important Reagan biography of the post-Reagan era." The New York Times calls it a "gripping new biography" and writes: "Boot’s book enters a crowded field, but stands out for its deep research, lucid prose and command of its subject’s broad political and social context." The Sunday Times (UK) calls it "impeccably researched and thoroughly compelling."
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Max Boot is a columnist for The Washington Post. He has also been a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the New York Times, Foreign Policy, Commentary, and many other publications.
