The Clinton Wars
New York, N.Y. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [10], 822 pages. DJ has wear and soiling. Includes Acknowledgments, Illustrations and Index. Chapters cover The Challenge to the Old Order; The Forces are Arrayed; First Blood; Clinton's Strategic Offensive; Hillary Under Siege; A Political Education; Mine Canary; Inside the West Wing; Clinton's Third Way; Seven Days in January; In Starr's Chamber; The Reign of Witches; Show Trial; The Twenty-first Century; A New York State of Mind; The Stolen Succession; The Sands of Time; and The American Conflict. Sidney Stone Blumenthal (born November 6, 1948) is an American journalist and political operative. He is a former aide to President Bill Clinton; a long-time confidant of Hillary Clinton, formerly employed by the Clinton Foundation; and a journalist, particularly known for his writings about American politics and foreign policy. Over time, Blumenthal became increasingly controversial for his partisan brand of journalism, viewed as an archetype of a new type of journalist who have eroded the divide between the fading boundaries between independent journalism and partisan journalism. After the Clinton presidency, Blumenthal's book, The Clinton Wars, was published, historian Robert Dallek praised the book, opining that "Blumenthal's sprawling 800-page memoir of his four years as a presidential assistant" was a "welcome addition to the literature on Bill Clinton's tumultuous second term." Dallek also wrote that "Blumenthal brings a reporter's keen eye for telling detail and a columnist's talent for considered analysis and unmistakable opinion to his reconstruction of what he calls the Clinton wars." More