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Max Boot
Columnist, The Washington Post; Author, "Reagan: His Life and Legend"
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 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.
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