Matthew Dallek

Matthew Dallek is an Assistant Professor of Political Management in the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University, where he teaches courses on political leadership, the presidency, and Washington. His first book, "The Right Moment: Ronald Reagan’s First Victory and the Decisive Turning Point in American Politics," traced Reagan’s rise to power in California in the mid-1960s. He is now working on a political history of Eleanor Roosevelt’s battle to enact a wartime New Deal and Fiorello La Guardia’s effort to militarize the home front during World War II (Oxford University Press).