Max Boot is a historian and biographer, best-selling author, and foreign-policy analyst. He is the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow for national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a weekly columnist for The Washington Post. Max Boot’s best-selling biography of Ronald Reagan, "Reagan: His Life and Legend," was named one of the Ten Best Books of 2024 by the New York Times, and also made best-of-the-year lists from The New Yorker, The Washington Post and The Economist. It has been acclaimed as “a landmark work” (The New York Times), the "definitive biography" (The New Yorker), “magisterial” (The Washington Post), and “enormously readable and scrupulously honest” (The Sunday Times). Max Boot’s previous biography, "The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam," was also a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in biography.
