Sidney Blumenthal

Sidney Blumenthal is a journalist and political adviser. He is probably best known as assistant and senior adviser to President Bill Clinton and adviser on Hillary Clinton's campaign. Before joining the administration, he worked as a political journalist for The New Republic, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker

Blumenthal is the author of several books, including The Clinton Wars—a mammoth, 853-page memoir of his time in the White House—The Permanent Campaign, The Rise of the Counter-Establishment, and A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809–1849, the first in a four-volume biography of Lincoln.

He's also served as a consultant for the Robert Altman-directed and Garry Trudeau-penned HBO series, Tanner '88, which tracked a fictional congressman's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. 

Blumenthal also produced the films Max and Taxi to the Dark Side, the latter of which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.