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E. J. Dionne
E. J. Dionne
E. J. Dionne
Phi Beta Kappa, and a D.Phil. (1982) from Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He attended Portsmouth Abbey School, a prestigious Benedictine college preparatory school in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Dionne is a columnist for Commonweal, a liberal Catholic publication. Before becoming a columnist for the Post in 1993, he worked as a reporter for that paper as well as The New York Times. Dionne was born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Fall River, Massachusetts. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland with his wife and three children.
E. J. Dionne, January 2008 Born April 23, 1952 Boston, Massachusetts
Writings
• Why Americans Hate Politics. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. ISBN 978-0671682552 • They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. ISBN 978-0684807683 • Stand Up, Fight Back: Republican Toughs, Democratic Wimps, and the Politics of Revenge. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. ISBN 978-0743258586 • Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious Right. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. ISBN 0691134588
Eugene J. "E.J." Dionne, Jr. (born April 23, 1952) is an American journalist and political commentator, and a long-time op-ed columnist for The Washington Post. He is also a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, a University Professor in the Foundations of Democracy and Culture at Georgetown Public Policy Institute, a Senior Research Fellow at Saint Anselm College, and an NPR Commentator. A frequent critic of the Bush Administration, Dionne writes from a liberal viewpoint. His published works include the influential 1991 bestseller Why Americans Hate Politics, which argued that several decades of political polarization was alienating a silent centrist majority, as well as They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era (1996), and Stand up Fight Back: Republican Toughs, Democratic Wimps, and Politics of Revenge (2004). Dionne holds a B.A. from Harvard University (1973), where he was elected to
External links
Washington Post columns Brookings Institution page Georgetown Faculty web page NPR page Biography from the Washington Post Writers Group • "Conversation with History" interview • • • • •
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