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.
Praise for The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Magisterial...A vividly written, wide-ranging and often surprising account of the president-to-be. -The New York Times Book Review Wrestling With His Angel is a raucous and epic voyage through the turbulent political waters of the age that made Abraham Lincoln. Completely mesmerizing, a deeply serious meditation with the keen sense of humor that Lincoln so famously had. -John Witt, author of the Lincoln's Code, winner of the Bancroft Prize [A]n astute account of Lincoln the politician whose apprenticeship in that profession was a necessary prelude to his greatness as a statesman in the Civil War. [T]his book offers new insights into Lincoln's life and career. -James McPherson, author of The War that Forged a Nation Blumenthal illuminates the path Lincoln hewed to greatness. -Allen Guelzo, author of Gettysburg, winner of the Lincoln Prize Sidney Blumenthal has rescued the Lincoln most Americans know only as an icon, and turned him back into a real human being, revealing a clever and adroit politician, a fixer of conventions, and a political operator whose ambitions are surpassed only by his searing moral vision. -Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer An entertaining, Wolf Hall-esque treatment that will please Blumenthal's fans and win new ones to this series. -Publishers Weekly [Blumenthal] continues to establish himself as the definitive chronicler of Lincoln's political career...as essential as any political biography is likely to be. -Kirkus, Starred Review