Biography
Matthew Dallek is a historian and professor at George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management. His research and teaching interests include 20th-century U.S. politics, political extremism and violence, and the intersection of social crises and political transformation. He is at work on a book about presidential assassination attempts and political violence in modern America. He is author, most recently, of Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right (Basic Books, 2023). His book, Defenseless Under the Night (Oxford University Press, 2016), won the Henry Adams award from Society for History in the Federal Government. His first book, The Right Moment (Oxford University Press, 2004), chronicled Ronald Reagan’s rise to power in mid-sixties California and appeared on the Washington Post’s and Chicago Tribune’s year-end best-of lists. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and Politico.
