News about Max Boot

Ronald Reagan's family was the 'most dysfunctional I've ever known,' a friend of the couple reveals in a major biography of the former President. Famed economist Arthur Laffer said he was appalled at how Reagan and his second wife Nancy treated their own children and her two stepchildren in an upcoming book by Washington Post columnist Max Boot.

Fascinating new secrets about Ronald Regan's beloved ranch, Rancho del Cielo, were revealed by biographer Max Boot. Standing amid 688 lush acres in the hills near Santa Barbara, Reagan's ranch-house was his favorite place in the world. After he moved into the White House on January 20, 1981, the former California governor found his new living quarters to be too sheltered, describing the situation as a 'bird-in-a-gilded-cage sense of isolation.' Whenever the chance presented itself, the president would ditch Washington for his 1,500 square-foot ranch, where he could ride horses and engage in manual labor.