Early life and education
Dionne was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 23, 1952, and raised in Fall River, Massachusetts. He is the son of the late Lucienne (née Galipeau), a librarian and teacher, and Eugène J. Dionne, a dentist. He is of French-Canadian descent. He attended Portsmouth Abbey School (then known as Portsmouth Priory), a Benedictine college preparatory school in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Dionne holds an A.B. ''summa cum laude'' in Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Social Studies from Harvard University (1973), where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was affiliated with Adams House (Harvard University), Adams House. He also earned a DPhil in Sociology from Balliol College, Oxford, Balliol College, University of Oxford, Oxford (1982), where he was a Rhodes Scholarship, Rhodes Scholar.Career
Dionne's published works include the influential 1991 bestseller ''Why Americans Hate Politics'', which argued that several decades of political polarization was alienating a silent centrism, centrist majority. It was characterized as Radical center (politics), radical centrist by ''Time (magazine), Time''. Later books include ''They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era'' (1996), ''Stand up Fight Back: Republican Toughs, Democratic Wimps, and Politics of Revenge'' (2004), ''Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious Right'' (2008), and ''Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent'' (2012). His most recent book is ''One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate and the Not-Yet Deported'' (2017), coauthored with Norman Ornstein, Norman J. Ornstein and Thomas E. Mann. Dionne is a columnist for ''Commonweal (magazine), Commonweal'', a liberalism, 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''. He has joined the left-liberal The National Memo news-politics website.Personal life
Dionne lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his wife, Mary Boyle, and three children, James, Julia, and Margot.Writings
* ''Why Americans Hate Politics''. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. * ''They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era''. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. * ''Community Works: The Revival of Civil Society in America'' (editor). Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1998 * ''Stand Up, Fight Back: Republican Toughs, Democratic Wimps, and the Politics of Revenge''. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. * ''Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious Right''. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. * ''Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent''. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, Bloomsbury, 2012. * ''Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism From Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond''. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016. * ''One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported''. With Norman Ornstein, Norman J. Ornstein and Thomas E. Mann. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2017. * ''Code Red: How Progressives and Moderates Can Unite to Save Our Country''. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2020.References
External links
* https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/ej-dionne-jr/