Event Details

Historian, author, and CFR foreign policy expert Max Boot reintroduces us to one of America's most consequential and controversial presidents โ€“ and his lasting impact on the U.S. and the world. In conversation with Jim Falk.


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"A timely and fascinating book, just what we need to understand, and perhaps transcend, our current age of political paralysis and polarizationโ€ฆUnderstanding Reagan is key to understanding our politics today." โ€“Walter Isaacson, author of "Elon Musk and Steve Jobs"

Speakers

  • Max Boot

    Max Boot

    Max Boot, historian and foreign-policy analyst, is a 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: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam", was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography.

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  • Jim Falk (Host at WorldNow with Jim Falk)

    Jim Falk

    Host at WorldNow with Jim Falk

    Jim retired in March 2021 as president of the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth, a position he held for two decades; he is now its president emeritus. He served as Interim Executive Director of the Santa Fe Council on International Relations for seven months ending in March 2022 and is currently a member of the Board and chair of programs. Jim’s interest in travel and global affairs grew from his years spent in Tunisia where he attended a French lycée. He is a graduate of Washington and Lee University and earned his MA in Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia with a focus on international law and Middle East politics. Jim co-hosts McCuistion/Perspectives, a public affairs program, on KERA-Dallas. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Honorary Consul for the Kingdom of Morocco.

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