Max Boot
Max Boot is a best-selling historian, biographer, and foreign policy analyst. He is the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow for national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a columnist for The Washington Post. His new book, Reagan: His Life and Legend, is a New York Times bestseller. It was named one of the 10 best books of 2024 by the New York Times, which described it as a "landmark work." It also made best-of-the-year lists from The Washington Post and The Economist. His previous biography, The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam, 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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Books
Max Boot's newest book is Reagan: His Life and Legend—an instant New York Times bestseller and one of the New York Times's 10 best books of 2024. The New Yorker writes: "Reagan: His Life and Legend aims to be the definitive biography, and it succeeds." 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.
