Sidney Blumenthal
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Sidney Blumenthal was born in Chicago in 1948 and educated at Brandeis University (BA in Sociology in 1969). He is a widely-published journalist, especially on American politics and foreign policy.
He started his career in Boston, then wrote for The New Republic, The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker. He served as assistant and senior adviser to Bill Clinton from August 1997 until January 2001. He subsequently wrote a book, The Clinton Wars. Other books include The Permanent Campaign, The Rise of the Counter-Establishment, and Pledging Allegiance: The Last Campaign of the Cold War.
Blumenthal is now the Washington bureau chief for Salon.com, for which he writes occasional pieces, as well as being a regular columnist for the UK newspaper, The Guardian.
He once sued Matt Drudge for $30 million for claiming that he beat his wife. The case was settled before trial.
He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and two sons.
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