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Max Boot

Max Boot, historian and foreign-policy analyst, is the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow for national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a columnist for the Washington Post. His New York Times bestseller The Road Not Taken was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.

Max Boot

Books by Max Boot

Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present
Max Boot
Paperback, 2014
The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
Max Boot
Hardback, 2018
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (Biography)
New York Times Bestseller

In chronicling the adventurous life of legendary CIA operative Edward Lansdale, The Road Not Taken definitively reframes our...
The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right
Max Boot
Hardback, 2018
A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year
Warning that the Trump presidency presages America’s decline, the political commentator recounts his extraordinary journey from lifelong Republican to...
The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
Max Boot
Paperback, 2019
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (Biography)

A New York Times bestseller, this “epic and elegant” biography (Wall Street Journal) profoundly recasts our understanding of the Vietnam War.
The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right
Max Boot
Paperback, 2020
A “must read” (Joe Scarborough) by a New York Times– best- selling author, The Corrosion of Conservatism presents a necessary defense of American democracy.
Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present
Max Boot
E Book, 2013
The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
Max Boot
E Book, 2018
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (Biography)

A New York Times bestseller, this “epic and elegant” biography (Wall Street Journal) profoundly recasts our understanding of the Vietnam War.
The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right
Max Boot
E Book, 2018
A “must read” (Joe Scarborough) by a New York Times– best- selling author, The Corrosion of Conservatism presents a necessary defense of American democracy.