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. 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.
His 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 has also made best-of-the-year lists at The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Economist, and Air Mail. 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.
Max Boot speaking on his book “Reagan: His Life and Legend,” is the keynote address for the 2025 Military Frontiers Graduate Symposium, which is presented bi-yearly by the Mershon Center for International Security Studies and the America in the World Consortium.
