1. Max A Boot was born on September 12,1969 and is a Russian-born naturalized American author, editorialist, lecturer, and military historian.
39 Facts About Max Boot
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Max Boot worked as a writer and editor for The Christian Science Monitor and then for The Wall Street Journal in the 1990s.
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Max Boot 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.
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In 2018, Boot published The Road Not Taken, a biography of Edward Lansdale, which was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for biography, 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", in the aftermath of the 2016 US presidential election.
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Max Boot's biography of Ronald Reagan, Reagan: Max Boot's Life and Legend, was a New York Times Bestseller and named one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2024, as well as one of the year's best books by The Washington Post and The New Yorker.
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Max Boot attended the University of California, Berkeley where he graduated with honors with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1991 and Yale University with an MA in Diplomatic History in 1992.
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Max Boot began his career in journalism writing columns for the Berkeley student newspaper The Daily Californian.
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Max Boot later said that he believes he is the only conservative writer in that paper's history.
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Max Boot co-authored an opinion piece with Terry for the Washington Post in 2023.
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Max Boot has blogged regularly for Commentary since 2007, and for several years on its blog page called Contentions.
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Max Boot has given lectures at US military institutions such as the Army War College and the Command and General Staff College.
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Max Boot worked as a writer and as an editor for The Christian Science Monitor from 1992 to 1994.
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Max Boot moved to The Wall Street Journal for the next eight years.
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Max Boot left the Journal in 2002 to join the Council on Foreign Relations as a Senior Fellow in National Security Studies.
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Max Boot wrote Savage Wars of Peace, a study of small wars in American history, with Basic Books in 2002.
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Max Boot worked as member of the Project for the New American Century in 2004.
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Max Boot published the work War Made New, an analysis of revolutions in military technology since 1500, in 2006.
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Max Boot wrote many more articles with the CFR in 2007, and he received the Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism that year.
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Max Boot served as a foreign policy adviser to Senator John McCain in his 2008 United States presidential election bid.
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Max Boot stated in an editorial in World Affairs Journal that he saw strong parallels between Theodore Roosevelt and McCain.
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Max Boot continued to write for the CFR in several publications in 2008 and 2009.
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Max Boot wrote for the CFR through 2010 and 2011 for publications such as Newsweek, The Boston Globe, The New York Times and The Weekly Standard.
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Max Boot particularly argued that President Barack Obama's health care plans made maintaining US superpower status harder, that withdrawal of US troops from Iraq occurred prematurely while making another war there more likely, and that the initial US victory in Afghanistan had been undone by government complacency though forces could still pull off a victory.
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Max Boot wrote op-eds criticizing planned budget austerity measures in both the US and the UK as hurting their national security interests.
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In September 2012, Max Boot co-wrote with Brookings Institution senior fellow Michael Doran a New York Times op-ed titled "5 Reasons to Intervene in Syria Now", advocating US military force to create a countrywide no-fly zone reminiscent of NATO's role in the Kosovo War.
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Third, Max Boot argued that "training and equipping reliable partners within Syria's internal opposition" could help "create a bulwark against extremist groups like Al Qaeda".
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Max Boot concluded that "American leadership on Syria could improve relations with key allies like Turkey and Qatar" as well as "end a terrible human-rights disaster".
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Max Boot has discussed his book in various programs such as the Hoover Institution's Uncommon Knowledge series, appearing on it in January 2014.
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Max Boot identifies as a conservative, once joking that "I grew up in the 1980s, when conservatism was cool".
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Max Boot is in favor of limited government at home and American leadership abroad, believing America should be "the world's policeman".
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Max Boot was one of the earliest proponents of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq.
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Max Boot is a strong supporter of Israel and opposed the dismantling of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
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In 2011, Max Boot supported the NATO-led military intervention in Libya.
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In 2015 and 2016, Max Boot was a campaign advisor to Marco Rubio for the 2016 United States presidential primaries and strongly opposed Trump's 2016 presidential candidacy.
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Max Boot said in March 2016 that he would "sooner vote for Josef Stalin than he would vote for Donald Trump".
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Max Boot was critical of the nomination of Rex Tillerson to the position of Secretary of State, believing him to be problematically pro-Russian, and subsequently called on Tillerson to resign.
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Max Boot is a member of the advisory board of Renew Democracy Initiative, a non-partisan organization founded in 2017.
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In March 2019, Max Boot proposed to retire the neoconservative label, saying that the term "neocon thinking" is falsely associated with the advocacy of the United States invasion and occupation of Iraq:.
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Max Boot has argued in favor of increased content moderation of social media.