{"title":"Max Boot","description":"\u003cp\u003eMax Boot offers rigorous explorations of modern history and military strategy, presenting complex conflicts with clarity and insight. His works, such as \u003cem\u003eInvisible Armies\u003c\/em\u003e, delve into the challenges of warfare and insurgency, providing readers with a nuanced understanding of global struggles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to military history, Boot's biographies, including titles like \u003cem\u003eReagan\u003c\/em\u003e, bring historical figures to life with thoughtful analysis and compelling narrative. His books engage readers interested in the intersection of leadership, policy, and history.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"reagan-by-max-boot-9780871409447","title":"Reagan","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this \"monumental and impressive\" biography, Max Boot, the distinguished political columnist, illuminates the untold story of Ronald Reagan, revealing the man behind the mythology. Drawing on interviews with over one hundred of the fortieth president's aides, friends, and family members, as well as thousands of newly available documents, Boot provides \"the best biography of Ronald Reagan to date\" (Robert Mann).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe story begins not in star-studded Hollywood but in the cradle of the Midwest, small-town Illinois, where Reagan was born in 1911 to Nelle Clyde Wilson, a devoted Disciples of Christ believer, and Jack Reagan, a struggling, alcoholic salesman. Boot vividly creates a portrait of a handsome young man, indeed a much-vaunted lifeguard, whose early successes mirrored those of Horatio Alger. By contextualising Reagan's life against American history, Boot re-creates the world in which Reagan transitioned from local Iowa sportscaster to budding screen actor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe world of Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1950s would prove significant, not only in Reagan's coming-of-age in such classics as \u003cem\u003eKnute Rockne\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eKings Row\u003c\/em\u003e but during the twilight of his film career, when he played opposite a chimpanzee in \u003cem\u003eBedtime for Bonzo\u003c\/em\u003e, and then his eventual emergence as a television host of \u003cem\u003eGeneral Electric Theater\u003c\/em\u003e, which established his bona fides as one of the leading conservative voices of the time. Indeed, the leap to California governor in 1966 seemed almost preordained, in which Reagan became a bellwether for a nation in the throes of a generational shift.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReagan's 1980 presidential election augured a shift that continues into this century. Boot writes not as a partisan but as a historian seeking to set the story straight. He explains how Reagan was an ideologue but also a supreme pragmatist who signed pro-abortion and gun control bills as governor, cut deals with Democrats in both Sacramento and Washington, and befriended Mikhail Gorbachev to end the Cold War. A master communicator, Reagan revived America's spirits after the traumas of Vietnam and Watergate. But Boot also shows how Reagan was armoured in obliviousness. He traces Reagan's opposition to civil rights over forty years, reveals how he neglected the exploding AIDS epidemic, and details how America experienced a level of income inequality not seen since the Gilded Age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith its revelatory insights, \u003cem\u003eReagan: His Life and Legend\u003c\/em\u003e is no apologia, depicting a man with a good-versus-evil worldview derived from his moralistic upbringing and Hollywood westerns. Providing fresh examinations of \"trickle-down economics,\" the Cold War's end, the Iran-Contra affair, as well as a nuanced portrait of Reagan's family, this definitive biography is as compelling a presidential biography as any in recent decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46796642287852,"sku":"9780871409447","price":78.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/6591053482498.jpg?v=1757102227"},{"product_id":"invisible-armies-by-max-boot-9780871406880","title":"Invisible Armies","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInvisible Armies\u003c\/em\u003e presents an entirely original narrative of warfare, demonstrating that, far from being the exception, loosely organised partisan or guerrilla warfare has been the dominant form of military conflict throughout history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e best-selling author and military historian Max Boot traces guerrilla warfare and terrorism from antiquity to the present, narrating nearly thirty centuries of unconventional military conflicts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFilled with dramatic analysis of strategy and tactics, as well as many memorable characters—from Italian nationalist Guiseppe Garibaldi to the \"Quiet American,\" Edward Lansdale—\u003cem\u003eInvisible Armies\u003c\/em\u003e is \"as readable as a novel\" (Michael Korda, \u003cem\u003eDaily Beast\u003c\/em\u003e) and \"a timely reminder to politicians and generals of the hard-earned lessons of history\" (\u003cem\u003eEconomist\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000653005036,"sku":"9780871406880","price":43.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/6565383482498.jpg?v=1763293969"},{"product_id":"reagan-by-max-boot-9781324099468","title":"Reagan","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this \u003cem\u003emonumental and impressive\u003c\/em\u003e biography, Max Boot, the distinguished political columnist, illuminates the untold story of Ronald Reagan, revealing the man behind the mythology. Drawing on interviews with over one hundred of the fortieth president's aides, friends, and family members, as well as thousands of newly available documents, Boot provides \u003cem\u003ethe best biography of Ronald Reagan to date\u003c\/em\u003e (Robert Mann).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe story begins not in star-studded Hollywood but in the cradle of the Midwest, small-town Illinois, where Reagan was born in 1911 to Nelle Clyde Wilson, a devoted Disciples of Christ believer, and Jack Reagan, a struggling, alcoholic salesman. Boot vividly creates a portrait of a handsome young man, indeed a much-vaunted lifeguard, whose early successes mirrored those of Horatio Alger. Contextualizing Reagan's life against American history, Boot re-creates the world in which Reagan transitioned from local Iowa sportscaster to budding screen actor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe world of Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1950s would prove significant, not only in Reagan's coming-of-age in such classics as \u003cem\u003eKnute Rockne\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eKings Row\u003c\/em\u003e but during the twilight of his film career, when he played opposite a chimpanzee in \u003cem\u003eBedtime for Bonzo\u003c\/em\u003e, and then his eventual emergence as a television host of \u003cem\u003eGeneral Electric Theater\u003c\/em\u003e, which established his bona fides as one of the leading conservative voices of the time. Indeed, the leap to California governor in 1966 seemed almost preordained, in which Reagan became a bellwether for a nation in the throes of a generational shift.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReagan's 1980 presidential election augured a shift that continues into this century. Boot writes not as a partisan but as a historian seeking to set the story straight. He explains how Reagan was an ideologue but also a supreme pragmatist who signed pro-abortion and gun control bills as governor, cut deals with Democrats in both Sacramento and Washington, and befriended Mikhail Gorbachev to end the Cold War. A master communicator, Reagan revived America's spirits after the traumas of Vietnam and Watergate. But Boot also shows how Reagan was armoured in obliviousness. He traces Reagan's opposition to civil rights over forty years, reveals how he neglected the exploding AIDS epidemic, and details how America experienced a level of income inequality not seen since the Gilded Age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith its revelatory insights, \u003cem\u003eReagan: His Life and Legend\u003c\/em\u003e is no apologia, depicting a man with a good-versus-evil worldview derived from his moralistic upbringing and Hollywood westerns. 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