MAX BOOT is a historian, bestselling 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. Boot’s new biography of Ronald Reagan, Reagan: Su vida y leyenda (Liveright), has been acclaimed as “an exceptional biography of an exceptional man” (David Petraeus) and “a timely and fascinating book” (Walter Isaacson). His previous biography, The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam (Liveright), was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in biography.