14 Facts About Alexander Boot

Alexander Boot was born on 1948 and is a Russian-born writer of books and articles, previously a university lecturer and an advertising and public relations executive.

Alexander Boot is of Jewish ancestry, and his father had spent much of the war as a prisoner of war of the Germans.

However, Alexander Boot's father survived to bribe the doctor of the Institute of Modern Languages to gain admission for his son, who was "clever but lazy".

Alexander Boot is the father of the MSNBC and CNN contributor Max Alexander Boot, who was born in Moscow in 1969.

In 1973, Alexander Boot settled in the United States, where he worked in advertising.

Alexander Boot later pursued this career in the United Kingdom, where he worked in public relations, after moving there in 1988.

Alexander Boot became an occasional journalist in the British news media, writing articles for the Daily Mail, the London Magazine, the Salisbury Review and The Independent, while continuing with his main career in business.

Alexander Boot is married to the pianist Penelope Blackie and spends much of his time at their house in rural France.

Alexander Boot has called liberal democracy "nothing but a mendacious slogan of a virtual world", as it is "neither truly democratic nor particularly liberal", resting on the ever-growing power over people of a centralized state which has dictatorial power.

Alexander Boot makes no attempt to defend "real democracy", which in his view leads inevitably to centralization and bureaucratic control, and instead proposes that the right to vote should be limited, with no electoral franchise for those who get more than half of their earned income from the government.

Alexander Boot believes the state should be smaller, and people should be self-sufficient.

Alexander Boot has proposed that a return to the gold standard would restore monetary rectitude.

Alexander Boot defends the Roman Catholicism of the Middle Ages and is critical of other forms of Christianity, especially the Protestant Reformation led by Martin Luther and John Calvin.

Alexander Boot stresses Luther's antisemitism, finding a direct link between Luther and the Holocaust, and considers that Protestants have pushed the West towards excessive materialism.