Sidney Blumenthal

Sidney Blumenthal is the acclaimed author of A Self-Made Man and Wrestling with His Angel , the first two volumes in his five-volume biography, The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln . He is the former assistant and senior adviser to President Bill Clinton and senior adviser to Hillary Clinton. He has been a national staff reporter for The Washington Post and Washington editor and writer for The New Yorker . His books include the bestselling The Clinton Wars , The Rise of the Counter...See more

Sidney Blumenthal is the acclaimed author of A Self-Made Man and Wrestling with His Angel , the first two volumes in his five-volume biography, The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln . He is the former assistant and senior adviser to President Bill Clinton and senior adviser to Hillary Clinton. He has been a national staff reporter for The Washington Post and Washington editor and writer for The New Yorker . His books include the bestselling The Clinton Wars , The Rise of the Counter-Establishment, and The Permanent Campaign . Born and raised in Illinois, he lives in Washington, DC. See less