Episode: 178 Max Boot
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Max Boot is a foreign policy commentator and historian. Just this week he was named a contributing writer to the Op-ed page of the Washington Post.
He is the author of several books; his most recent is The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
Lansdale was a CIA officer who was the inspiration behind the title character of …
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