E. J. Dionne

Eugene Joseph " E. J. " Dionne Jr. ( born April 23, 1952 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American journalist and political commentator. He is best known as a columnist for the Washington Post.

Life and activity

Dionne is French-Canadian descent. He grew up as the son of a dentists un your librarian in Fall River (Massachusetts ) on. After visiting the Portsmouth Abbey School in Rhode Iceland, he studied at Harvard University, where he earned a 1973 Bachelor 's degree in Social Studies. Later he studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, where he in 1982 at Balliol College, earned a doctorate.

In the 1980s, Dionne began to make a name for himself as a journalist. In the 1980s he worked as a reporter for the Washington Post and the New York Times. In 1993 he received an own column at the post office, which he has to this day. In 1991 he published the book Why Americans Hate Politics, which became a bestseller. In this book he makes the decades of polarization of the political operation responsible for ensuring that the majority of the political in the middle, ie away from the ideologically stubborn wings of the major parties, 's supporters have developed a significant aversion to political operation, with the result that the policy would be perceived as such by large segments of the population as something negative.

In addition to his journalistic and literary activities Dionne is a Fellow in the field of governance studies at the Brookings Institution and professor at the Public Policy Institute at Georgetown University. On television, Dionne occurs frequently as a commentator on programs of educational PBS channel as well as in programs of the left-wing cable news channel MSNBC, while he works on the radio for National Public Radio.

Dionne, who lives in Bethesda, Maryland, is married and has three children.

Writings

  • Why Americans Hate Politics, New York 1991.
  • They Only Look Dead. Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era, New York 1996.
  • Community Works: The Revival of Civil Society in America, Washington DC In 1998. (Editor)
  • Stand Up, Fight Back. Republican Toughs, Democratic Wimps, and the Politics of Revenge, New York, 2004.
  • Souled Out. Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious Right, Princeton, 2008.
  • Our Divided Political Heart. The Battle for the American Idea in on Age of Discontent, New York, 2012.
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