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.
