Matthew Dallek: 2 books
The Right Moment
Ronald Reagan's First Victory and the Decisive Turning Point in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2000
Ronald Reagan's first great victory, in the 1966 California governor's race, seemed to come from nowhere and has long since confounded his critics. Just two years earlier, when Barry Goldwater lost to Lyndon Johnson by a landslide, the conservative movement was pronounced dead. In California, Governor...
Defenseless Under the Night
The Roosevelt Years and the Origins of Homeland Security
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
In his 1933 inaugural address, Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Yet even before Pearl Harbor, Americans feared foreign invasions, air attacks, biological weapons, and, conversely, the prospect of a dictatorship being established in the United States....