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Sidney Blumenthal | |
|---|---|
 Blumenthal in 2006 | |
| Senior Advisor to the President | |
| In office August 19, 1997 – January 20, 2001 Serving with Doug Sosnik, Joel Johnson | |
| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | George Stephanopoulos |
| Succeeded by | Karl Rove |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Sidney Stone Blumenthal November 6, 1948 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse |
Jacqueline Jordan (m. 1976) |
| Children | 2, including Max |
| Education | Brandeis University (BA) |
Sidney Stone Blumenthal (born November 6, 1948) is an American journalist, political operative, and Lincoln scholar. A former aide to President Bill Clinton, he is a long-time confidant of Hillary Clinton,[1] and was formerly employed by the Clinton Foundation.[2] As a journalist, Blumenthal wrote about American politics and foreign policy. He is also the author of a multivolume biography of Abraham Lincoln, The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln. Three books of the planned five-volume series have already been published (A Self-Made Man, Wrestling With His Angel, and All the Powers of Earth), and subsequent volumes were planned for later.[3][4]
Blumenthal has written for publications such as The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker, for whom he served for a time as the magazine's Washington correspondent, and, was, briefly, the Washington, D.C., bureau chief for Salon. He is a regular contributor to the openDemocracy website and is a regular columnist for The Guardian.[5] After 2000, he wrote several essays critical of the administration of George W. Bush.[6][7][8][9][10]
Over time, Blumenthal was viewed as a new type of journalist who eroded the divide between independent journalism and partisan journalism. In the words of reporter Michael Powell in his profile of Blumenthal in The Washington Post, "As the connection between journalists and politicians is umbilical in Washington, Blumenthal's political problem, in part, is journalistic. His is a type found far more often on the right in Washington, a partisan warrior who takes a critically sympathetic stance not just toward his issues but his chosen political party as well. Even as a writer at The Washington Post, where Blumenthal worked in the 1980s, he placed a porous membrane between his political views and his writing. It is the sort of partisan, if also intellectual, engagement that makes mainstream journalists, even those of liberal politics, deeply uncomfortable."[11]
- ^ Warren, James (July 5, 2016). "The Hillary Confidant You Can't Escape". Vanity Fair.
- ^ Brody, Ben (May 28, 2015). "Report: Clinton Foundation Paid Sidney Blumenthal $10,000 a Month". Bloomberg.
- ^ Hahn, Steven (May 13, 2016). "'A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809–1849,' by Sidney Blumenthal". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 17, 2018.
- ^ Pengelly, Martin (September 8, 2019). "What politics is: Sidney Blumenthal on Lincoln and his own Washington life". The Guardian. Retrieved January 18, 2020.
- ^ "Sidney Blumenthal". The Guardian. 2014. Retrieved January 15, 2025.
- ^ Blumenthal, Sidney (January 23, 2007). "The Republican Revolt". The Guardian. London, UK. Retrieved December 25, 2019.
- ^ Follman, Mark (February 28, 2007). "Inside Bush's prosecutor purge". Salon. Retrieved January 15, 2025.
- ^ Blumenthal, Sidney (March 22, 2007). "The Godfather White House". The Guardian. London, UK. Retrieved December 25, 2019.
- ^ Blumenthal, Sidney (December 21, 2006). "Delusions of Victory". The Guardian. London. Retrieved December 25, 2019.
- ^ Blumenthal, Sidney (September 8, 2019). "What politics is". The Guardian. Retrieved January 18, 2020.
- ^ Powell, Michael (September 25, 1998). "Blumenthal, Giving As Good as He Gets". The Washington Post. p. B01. Retrieved January 15, 2025.