# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sidney-blumenthal
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:05:33.999Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sidney-blumenthal"
name: "Sidney Blumenthal"
slug: "sidney-blumenthal"
description: "Sidney Stone Blumenthal is an American journalist, political operative, and Abraham Lincoln scholar. A former aide to President Bill Clinton, he is a long-time confidant of Hillary Clinton, and was formerly employed by the Clinton Foundation. As a journalist, Blumenthal wrote about American politics and foreign policy. He is also the author of a multivolume biography of Lincoln, The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln. Three books of the planned five-volume series have already been published, and subsequent volumes were planned for later."
tagline: "American political writer (born 1948)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sidney_blumenthal_2006.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1948-11-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.164179104477613
  historical:           6.976328000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0089842/"
    handle:    "nm0089842"
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    title: "Sidney Blumenthal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سيدني بلومنتال"
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    title: "سیدنئی بلومنتال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Blumenthal"
    title: "Sidney Blumenthal"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Blumenthal"
    title: "Sidney Blumenthal"
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    title: "Sidney Blumenthal"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3483318"
    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Sidney Blumenthal"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump