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: His Life and Legend (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.