Max Boot

Quick Facts

Full Name	Max Boot
Occupation	Historian
Date Of Birth	Sep 12, 1969(1969-09-12)
Age	55
Birthplace	Moscow
Country	Russia
Horoscope	Virgo

Max Boot Biography

Max Boot is one of the most popular and richest Historian who was born on September 12, 1969 in Moscow, Russia. He is a historian who is well-known for his work on foreign policy and armed conflict. His 2018 book, The Corrosion of Conservatism, was named to the Washington Post’s most notable books of 2018.

His CNN show AC360 has featured him often with He has frequently appeared alongside Anderson Cooper on his CNN show AC360..

In general, Boot considers himself to be a “natural contrarian”. He identifies as a conservative, once joking that “I grew up in the 1980s, when conservatism was cool”. He is in favor of limited government at home and American leadership abroad. He strongly opposed Trump’s presidential candidacy in 2016 and has been highly critical of the Republican Party. Boot endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016 U.S. presidential election. 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. Boot said he would “sooner vote for Josef Stalin than he would vote for Donald Trump.”

Max A. Boot (Russian: Макс Бут ) is an American author, consultant, editorialist, lecturer, and military historian. He worked as a writer and editor for Christian Science Monitor and then for The Wall Street Journal in the 1990s. He is now Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He has written for numerous publications such as The Weekly Standard, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times, and he has also authored books of military history. In 2018, Boot published The Road Not Taken, a biography of Edward Lansdale, 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 presidential election.

He was born in Moscow, and was raised in Los Angeles.

Max Boot Net Worth

Max Boot is one of the richest Historian from Russia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Max Boot 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

His B.A. was in history. He received his B.A. in history from the University of California at Berkeley. Later, he graduated with his history master’s degree. Yale University.

Forward Magazine’s 2018 Top 50 Jewish Americans was named to him. He served as a senior advisor on foreign policy for the presidential campaigns of He was named to Forward Magazine’s 2018 list of the 50 most influential Jewish Americans. He was a senior foreign policy advisor for the presidential campaigns of John McCain in 2008 and Marco Rubio in 2015-2016. (2008) and Marco Rubio (2015)-2016.

Boot was born in Moscow. His parents, both Russian Jews, emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1976 and moved to Los Angeles, where he was raised. Boot was educated at the University of California, Berkeley (BA, History, 1991) and Yale University (MA, Diplomatic History, 1992). He started his journalistic career writing columns for the Berkeley student newspaper The Daily Californian. He later stated that he believes he is the only conservative writer in that paper’s history. Boot and his family as of 2005 lived in the New York area.

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Boot wrote numerous articles with the CFR in 2003 and 2004. The World Affairs Councils of America named Boot one of “the 500 most influential people in the United States in the field of foreign policy” in 2004. He also worked as member of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) in 2004.

Facts & Trivia

Max Ranked on the list of most popular Historian. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Russia. Max Boot celebrates birthday on September 12 of every year.

Boot is the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard and the Los Angeles Times, and a regular contributor to other publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The New York Times. He has blogged regularly for Commentary since 2007, and for several years on its blog page called Contentions. He has given lectures at U.S. military institutions such as the Army War College and the Command and General Staff College.

Top Facts about Max Boot

1. Max Boot is a Russian-American writer and historian born in 1969.
2. He has written extensively on military history and foreign policy.
3. Boot has authored several influential books, including “The Savage Wars of Peace.”
4. He served as an advisor to U.S. military commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan.
5. Boot is known for his conservative political views and support for interventionism.
6. He has been a regular contributor to major newspapers like The Washington Post.
7. Boot holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and Yale University.
8. He has been a vocal critic of President Donald Trump’s policies.
9. Boot is considered one of the leading voices in American foreign policy analysis.
10. His work often focuses on the challenges posed by non-state actors and insurgencies.