Max Boot
Russian-American writer and historian (born 1969) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Max Boot[1] (born September 12, 1969) is a Russian-born naturalized American author, editorialist, lecturer, and military historian.[2] 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 also written for numerous publications such as The Weekly Standard, the Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times, and he has authored books of military history.[3] In 2018, Boot published The Road Not Taken, a biography of Edward Lansdale, 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",[4] in the aftermath of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Native name | Макс Алекса́ндрович Бут |
Born | Max Aleksandrovich Boot (1969-09-12) September 12, 1969 (age 54) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Occupation | Writer, historian |
Education | University of California, Berkeley (BA) Yale University (MA) London School of Economics |
Subject | Military history |
Relatives | Alexander Boot (father) |
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