Sidney Blumenthal

Sidney Blumenthal is a political journalist, pundit and adviser to both President Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton. He has written for the New Republic, the New Yorker and the Washington Post. Blumenthal is working on a multivolume biography of Abraham Lincoln. The first book, A Self-Made Man, was published this year.

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How the Heated, Divisive Election of 1800 Was the First Real Test of American Democracy

A banner from the Smithsonian collections lays out the stakes of Jefferson vs. Adams