How can I write a function to check if a date is in a date range in python?

Question

I have a data frame with two date columns and am needing to pass both of those dates through a function to see if they are in a certain date range.

It would need to be something like:

df['new_column'] = if df['column1'].between(date_1, date_2, inclusive=True) and df['column2] > date_2 = 'True', else 'False'