A line in a John Ford movie, “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,” expresses the ethos of Max Boot’s biography: “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” To a large extent, Mr. Boot’s biography ...

Reagan: His Life and Legend, by Max Boot, Liveright, 836 pages, $45 Max Boot believes "the biographer's job is to find the compromises and expose the shibboleths and then to report on them ...

Neoconservative writer Max Boot provides a preview of his new biography of Ronald Reagan by claiming in a Foreign Affairs essay that Ronald Reagan did not win the Cold War. Boot characterizes as “myth ...

AAPGMAIN copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "From New York Times bestselling biographer Bob Spitz, a full and rich biography of an epic American life, capturing what made ...

Poor Max Boot. By his own telling, he began working on his ambitious, now newly published biography of Ronald Reagan in 2013, when he was still a Reagan-admiring neoconservative in good standing. 1 ...

One of the more disappointing episodes in the recent history of political books occurred in 1999, when the long-awaited authorized biography of Ronald Reagan, Dutch, was published. Its author, Edmund ...

Reagan: His Life and Legend, by Max Boot, Liveright, 836 pages, $45 Max Boot believes "the biographer's job is to find the compromises and expose the shibboleths and then to report on them ...