An Evening With Sidney Blumenthal, 6 p.m., Friday June 20, 2003, LBJ Auditorium
From his first day in the White House until long after his appearance as the only presidential aide ever to testify in an impeachment trial, Sidney Blumenthal acted in or witnessed nearly all the battles of the Clinton years.
Mr. Blumenthal, a senior communications advisor to President Bill Clinton and a long-time journalist, will speak to the Friends of the LBJ Library for a special June "Evening With…" lecture. We're especially delighted to have Mr. Blumenthal with us in connection with the publication of his political memoir of the Clinton presidency-The Clinton Wars.
Historian Robert Dallek writes in The New York Times Book Review that The Clinton Wars is "A welcome addition to the literature on Bill Clinton's tumultuous second term... 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.'"
Sidney Blumenthal was born in Chicago and graduated from Brandeis University in 1969. He was a national political correspondent for The New Republic from 1983 to 1985 and then served as senior editor from 1990-1992. In addition, he was a member of the national staff of The Washington Post from 1985 to 1989 and was Washington editor of The New Yorker from 1992 to 1997. During President Clinton's second term he was assistant and then senior advisor to the president.
Mr. Blumenthal's previous books include The Permanent Campaign: Inside the World of Elite Political Operatives (1980); The Rise of the Counter-Establishment: From Conservative Ideology to Political Power (1986); Our Long National Daydream: A Political Pageant of the Reagan Era (1988); Pledging Allegiance: The Last Campaign of the Cold War (1990); and The Reagan Legacy, of which he was co-editor. He has been a commentator on NBC's Today show.