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Matthew Dallek

Matthew Dallek is an associate academic director at the University of California Washington Center. He is at work on a book about the Roosevelt administration and the politics and policy of civilian defense in World War II.

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“You’re Going to Live a Long Life”

A cancer survivor and writer says the “cancer community” lacks a cohesive political movement

by Matthew Dallek | Monday, June 15, 2009
The Moderate

The Moderate

Was Ike a great president?

by Matthew Dallek | Thursday, March 01, 2012
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Not Ready for Mt. Rushmore

Reconciling the myth of Ronald Reagan with the reality

by Matthew Dallek | Monday, June 01, 2009

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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