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Max Boot | |
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.jpg) Boot in 2024 | |
| Born | September 12, 1969 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Occupation | Writer, historian |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley (BA) Yale University (MA) London School of Economics |
| Subject | Military history |
| Spouse | Sue Mi Terry[1] |
| Relatives | Alexander Boot (father) |
| Website | |
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Max Boot[2] (born September 12, 1969) is a Russian-born naturalized American author, editorialist, lecturer, and military historian.[3] He worked as a writer and editor for The Christian Science Monitor and then for The Wall Street Journal in the 1990s. Since then, he has been the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a contributor to The Washington Post. He has written for such publications as The Weekly Standard, the Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times, and he has authored books of military history.[4] In 2018, Boot published The Road Not Taken, a biography of Edward Lansdale, which was a New York Times bestseller[4] and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for biography,[5] and The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right, which details Boot's "ideological journey from a 'movement' conservative to a man without a party",[6] in the aftermath of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. His biography of Ronald Reagan, Reagan: His Life and Legend,[7] was a New York Times Bestseller[8] and named one of the New York Times' 10 Best Books of 2024,[9] as well as one of the year's best books by The Washington Post[10] and The New Yorker[11].
- ^ Ladden=Hall, Dan (July 17, 2024). "Ex-White House Official Worked for South Korea in Exchange for Designer Bags, Prosecutors Say". thedailybeast.com.
- ^ Boot, Max A. (June 16, 1991). "Campus Correspondence: The Vast Emptiness at the Core of Today's Liberal Arts Education". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
loswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b Boot, Max (January 9, 2018). The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam. National Geographic Books. ISBN 978-0871409416.
- ^ https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/max-boot
- ^ "The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left The Right". W. W. Norton & Company.
- ^ "Reagan".
- ^ "Hardcover Nonfiction Books - Best Sellers - Books - Sept. 29, 2024 - the New York Times". The New York Times.
- ^ "The 10 Best Books of 2024". The New York Times. December 3, 2024.
- ^ https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/11/21/best-nonfiction/
- ^ "The Best Books of 2024". The New Yorker. January 24, 2024.