Kevin Mattson

Kevin Mattson (born 1966) is an American historian and critic.

Mattson received his B.A. from the New School and his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. For several years he ran the Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy at Rutgers University,

He is the Connor Study Professor of Contemporary History at Ohio University. He is a fellow at the Center for American Progress and on the editorial board of Dissent.

Works

• Just Plain Dick: Richard Nixon's Checkers Speech and the 'Rocking, Socking' Election of 1952" (2012)
• Intellectuals in Action: The Origins of the New Left and Radical Liberalism, 1945-1970 (2002)
• Creating a Democratic Public: The Struggle for Urban Participatory Democracy During the Progressive Era
• What the Heck Are You Up To Mr. President?: Jimmy Carter, America's Malaise and the Speech That Should Have Changed the Country
• Rebels All!: A Short History of the Conservative Mind in Postwar America
• Engaging Youth: Combating the Apathy of Young Americans Toward Politics
• Upton Sinclair and the Other American Century (2006)
• When America Was Great: The Fighting Faith of Liberalism in Post-War America
• Intellectuals in Action: The Origins of the New Left and Radical Liberalism, 1945-1970
• Steal This University: The Rise of the Corporate University and the Academic Labor Movement (2002) with Benjamin Johnson and Patrick Kavanagh
• Liberalism for a New Century with Neil Jumonville and E.J. Dionne
• Democracy's Moment : Reforming the American Political System for the 21st Century with Ronald Hayduk
• The Cause: The Fight for American Liberalism from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama with Eric Alterman