Reagan

”[I]mpeccably researched and thoroughly compelling… thanks to Boot’s enormously readable and scrupulously honest book, we know more than ever before about this complicated, frustrating and yet oddly magnetic man.” – Dominic Sandbrook - The Sunday Times “Intelligent, elegant and engrossing” – Andrew Preston - Literary Review “[Reagan’s] remoteness has frustrated previous biographers. But Mr Boot responds with doggedness, evoking Reagan’s early life in small-town Illinois, college years and early forays into politics. Mr Boot is a gifted enough writer to prevent this accretion of detail from becoming a slog, and Reagan’s apparent lack of an inner life becomes a benefit: it keeps the focus on Reagan’s actions, which matter far more than a politician’s thoughts or feelings.” – The Economist “[A] generous yet sharply perceptive biography” – Peter Conrad - The Observer “[Reagan] aims to be the definitive biography, and it succeeds. It’s a thoughtful, absorbing account.” – Daniel Immerwahr - The New Yorker “A judicious biography. ” – Jacob Heilbrunn - The New York Times “[A] magisterial new biography… The first important Reagan biography of the post-Reagan era” – Geoffrey Kabaservice - The Washington Post “[A] readable and insightful biography” – Philip Johnston - The Telegraph “This is a timely and fascinating book, just what we need to understand, and perhaps transcend, our current age of political paralysis and polarization. Understanding Reagan is key to understanding our politics today.” – Walter Isaacson, author of Elon Musk and Steve Jobs “This comprehensive biography—relying on a decade of research, unearthed records, and revealing interviews—separates man from myth, offering a compelling and clear-eyed portrait of this consequential president and the country he shaped.” – Karen Tumulty, author of The Triumph of Nancy Reagan “a new and masterly biography of Ronald Reagan” – William Hague - The Times

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.

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