‘What politics is’: Sidney Blumenthal on Lincoln and his own Washington life
Three volumes into a monumental biography of the 16th president, the Clinton aide is still part of the political scene
In the Palm restaurant at Dupont Circle, amid the buzz of Washington’s political talk, Sidney Blumenthal is discussing John Brown’s raid of 1859 and its place in his biography of Abraham Lincoln. He pauses, thinks, and smiles.
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