Matthew Dallek is an assistant professor at George Washington’s Graduate School of Political Management, a political historian, and a frequent commentator in the news media on public affairs. His forthcoming book Defenseless Under the Night: The Roosevelt Years and the Origins of Homeland Security (Oxford University Press) chronicles Eleanor Roosevelt's efforts to establish a wartime New Deal and Fiorello La Guardia's campaign to mobilize Americans militarily in reaction to the threat of foreign enemy attacks. Pre-order Defenseless Under the Night on Amazon.com
Dallek's first book The Right Moment: Ronald Reagan’s First Victory and the Decisive Turning Point in American Politics (Free Press, 2000; paperback, Oxford University Press, 2004) traced the unraveling of liberalism and the "Reagan Revolution" to student protests, civil rights, urban riots, and antiwar demonstrations in mid-1960s California. His book appeared on the Washington Post’s and Chicago Tribune’s annual best-of lists. Inside Campaigns: Elections through the Eyes of Political Professionals (coauthor, CQ/Sage, 2016) examines how campaigns matter in determining election outcomes and shaping American democracy. Based on interviews with more than 100 of the nation's most influential campaign managers, it was described in the New York Times as a “textbook on managing campaigns, by the managers themselves.”
Dallek's articles and reviews have appeared in the Washington Post, the Atlantic, the L.A. Times, Politico, Slate, the Journal of Policy History, and other scholarly and popular publications. He has been a fellow and public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, an associate director at the University of California Washington Center, and, most recently, a visiting scholar at Stanford’s Bill Lane Center for the American West. Dallek graduated from U.C. Berkeley with high honors in history and earned his Ph.D. from Columbia. After finishing graduate school, he worked as a speechwriter for House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt. Originally from Los Angeles, Dallek lives in Washington with his wife and two sons.
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