Join Max Boot, historian and author of Reagan: His Life and Legend, for a discussion on Ronald Reagan's life and his impact on U.S. foreign policy, moderated by Drew Cline, president of the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy. Boot's book has been praised as the "definitive biography" by The New Yorker. This discussion focuses on the lasting legacy of President Reagan and his impact on the world. From looking at his early childhood, all the way up to his time as President, this community conversation highlights and explores the lessons to learn from his leadership.
About the Speaker

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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