The Life and Legend of Ronald Reagan with Max Boot

Few presidents have so simultaneously captivated and divided the public as Ronald Reagan. From Reaganomics to the so-called Reagan era, his name alone has become synonymous with 20th-century conservative politics. In spite of his iconic status, however, Reagan remained enigmatic even to many of those closest to him. Author Max Boot explores the life and legend of Ronald Reagan, tracing the former president's story from his humble beginnings in the Great Depression, his years as an actor, his astonishing political rise that ushered in a new age of American social and fiscal policy, and finally, his heavily debated legacy.

Max Boot is a historian and biographer, best-selling author, and foreign-policy analyst. He is the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow for national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a weekly columnist for The Washington Post. 

Max Boot's best-selling biography of Ronald Reagan, Reagan: His Life and Legend, was named one of the Ten Best Books of 2024 by the New York Times, and also made best-of-the-year lists from The New Yorker, The Washington Post and The Economist.  It has been acclaimed as "a landmark work" (The New York Times), the "definitive biography" (The New Yorker), "magisterial" (The Washington Post), and "enormously readable and scrupulously honest" (The Sunday Times). Max Boot's previous biography, The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam, was also a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in biography. 

6:00pm Reception, 6:30pm Lecture gratis.  Advance registration required by Tuesday, February 11th at which point all reservations are final.