Editing Max Boot (section)

{{Short description|Russian-American writer and historian (born 1969)}}
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{{Infobox writer
| name             = Max Boot
| image            = Max Boot at the 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival on August 24, 2024 (cropped).jpg
| caption          = Boot in 2024
| birth_date       = {{Birth date and age|1969|9|12}}
| birth_place      = [[Moscow]], [[Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]]
| death_date       = 
| death_place      = 
| spouse           = [[Sue Mi Terry]]<ref>{{cite news | last=Ladden=Hall | first=Dan | title=Ex-White House Official Worked for South Korea in Exchange for Designer Bags, Prosecutors Say | date=July 17, 2024 | url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-white-house-official-worked-for-south-korea-in-exchange-for-designer-bags-prosecutors | work=thedailybeast.com }}</ref>
| occupation       = Writer, historian
| education        = [[University of California, Berkeley]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br />[[Yale University]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]])<br>[[London School of Economics]]
| subject          = [[Military history]]
| relatives        = [[Alexander Boot]] (father)
| website          = {{URL|maxboot.net}}
}}
'''Max A. Boot'''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-16-op-1257-story.html|title=Campus Correspondence: The Vast Emptiness at the Core of Today's Liberal Arts Education|date=June 16, 1991|first=Max A.|last=Boot|work=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> (born September 12, 1969) is a Russian-born [[naturalized citizen|naturalized American]] author, [[editorialist]], lecturer, and [[military historian]].<ref name=los/> 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.<ref name="cfr">{{cite book | isbn=978-0871409416 | title=The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam | last1=Boot | first1=Max | date=January 9, 2018 | publisher=National Geographic Books }}</ref> In 2018, Boot published ''The Road Not Taken'', a biography of [[Edward Lansdale]], which was a New York Times bestseller<ref name="cfr"/> and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for biography,<ref>https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/max-boot</ref> 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",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://books.wwnorton.com/books/978-1-63149-567-0/|title=The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left The Right|publisher=[[W. W. Norton & Company]]}}</ref> in the aftermath of the [[2016 U.S. presidential election]]. His biography of [[Ronald Reagan]], ''[[Reagan: His Life and Legend]]'',<ref>{{cite web | url=https://wwnorton.com/books/9780871409447 | title=Reagan }}</ref> was a [[New York Times Bestseller]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2024/09/29/hardcover-nonfiction/ | title=Hardcover Nonfiction Books - Best Sellers - Books - Sept. 29, 2024 - the New York Times | work=The New York Times }}</ref> and named one of the ''[[New York Times]]''{{'}} 10 Best Books of 2024,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/books/best-books-2024.html | title=The 10 Best Books of 2024 | work=The New York Times | date=December 3, 2024 }}</ref> as well as one of the year's best books by ''[[The Washington Post]]''<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/11/21/best-nonfiction/</ref> and ''[[The New Yorker]]<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.newyorker.com/best-books-2024 | title=The Best Books of 2024 | magazine=[[The New Yorker]] | date=January 24, 2024 }}</ref>''.