Alexander Boot

Of How the Future Worked (2013), a memoir of Boot’s years in Soviet Russia, Owen Matthews has said that the book makes sweeping generalizations and is "exuberant and chaotic, colourful, erratic… not unlike Russia itself."

In April 2012, The Independent quoted Boot as claiming that the UK Independence Party was "the only party that reflects the consensus of our population" on Europe.

Also in 2012, Pink News called on its readers to complain about a "startlingly homophobic" article by Boot in The Daily Mail.

In 2011, Boot launched his own blog, alexanderboot.com.

His The Crisis Behind Our Crisis (2011) deals with the moral aspects of the European debt crisis which followed the Financial crisis of 2007–2008 and has a foreword by Theodore Dalrymple, who says in it that Boot has implacable logic and grasp of history. Reviewing the work for The American Conservative, Paul Gottfried comments that "Boot explores the metaphysical and moral origins of what are usually viewed as strictly financial questions" and notes that it is "mostly about history, philosophy, and the Christian convictions of the author."

In 2009 came God and Man According to Tolstoy, in which Boot deals with the philosophical and moral views of Leo Tolstoy, as seen in his non-fiction.

In 2008, Boot's essay "Political Correctness" was published in The Nation That Forgot God, a collection of essays edited by Edward Leigh, with work by Roger Scruton, Vincent Nichols, Shusha Guppy, Aidan Bellenger, and Michael Nazir-Ali. The Catholic Times noted that "The nation of the title of this book of essays is, of course, Britain. The arresting title is justified by the intellectual strength of the twelve authors." Later in 2008 Boot's "Life in Putin's Russia" was published in The Chesterton Review.

Boot's first book was How the West Was Lost (2006), in which his principal theme was that the West he had fled Russia to find was disappearing. It had been confident, with a cultural excellence and creativity in art, architecture, and music, which was fundamentally spiritual. Where once there had been such a civilization, together with commitment to religion, there was now only an animalistic pursuit of "happiness" by people numbed by drugs and pop music, living self-indulgently and believing in nothing. The great institutions that had once defended political liberties had given way to the cult of the individual, philistinism, and nihilism.

Boot became an occasional journalist in the British news media, writing articles for the Daily Mail, the London Magazine, the Salisbury Review and The Independent, while continuing with his main career in business. However, in 2005 he retired as a company director and took to writing full-time, encouraged to write books by his friend Dr Anthony Daniels.

In 1973, Boot settled in the United States, where he worked in advertising. He later pursued this career in the United Kingdom, where he also worked in public relations, after moving there in 1988. In England he converted to high church Anglicanism with the help of Peter Mullen, whose services he began to attend regularly.

Boot is the father of the MSNBC and CNN contributor Max Boot, who was born in Moscow in 1969. Boot and his wife divorced in 1971. A dissident who was active in samizdat, he left the Soviet Union in 1973, fleeing from the unwanted attentions of the KGB, and in 1976 his former wife also emigrated with their son, settling in California. In 1975, Boot renounced his Soviet citizenship.

Alexander Boot (born 1948) is a Russian-born writer of books and articles, previously a university lecturer and an advertising and public relations executive. His work promotes traditionalist conservatism and European culture.