Best-selling author and historian Max Boot shares with Chicago Humanities the story of our 40th president—son of the Midwest, movie star and mesmerizing politician—whose telegenic leadership ushered in a transformative conservative era. Boot’s gripping and profoundly revisionist biography, Reagan: His Life and Legend, reveals the man behind the myth—but also argues that Reagan’s inscrutability during his lifetime contributed to his appeal. Boot, whose previous book was The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right, offers no apologia, depicting a man with a Manichean, good-versus-evil worldview and providing revelatory insights into “trickle-down economics,” the Cold War’s end, the Iran-Contra affair and much more.

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