Unlike Trump, Honest Abe had a mind for science—and it helped Him win the Civil War.
Sidney Blumenthal
Sidney Blumenthal is the author of All the Powers of Earth, The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln 1856-1860, A Self-Made Man, and Wrestling with His Angel, the first three volumes in his five-volume biography. He is a former assistant and senior adviser to President Bill Clinton and senior adviser to Hillary Clinton. He has been a national staff reporter for the Washington Post, Washington editor and writer for the New Yorker, and a contributor to the Washington Monthly.
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The Emergence of Abraham Lincoln
How America’s 16th president went from virtual obscurity to ending slavery.
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Clinton’s War
There are some striking similarities between Clinton’s Kosovo campaign and George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq four years later. Both were wars of choice, waged against tyrannical regimes that did not immediately threaten the United States. Both wars provoked strong public opposition in Europe and elsewhere and criticism that insufficient ground forces were being brought […]
