is Senior Adviser to Senator Hillary Clinton and former Assistant and Senior Adviser to President Bill Clinton. He is among the world's most prominent experts on nowadays American politics and journalism. Blumenthal recorded his unique insights into the machinery of politics both in the public arena and behind the scenes in The Clinton Wars (2003). Earlier this year, his new book The Strange Death of Republican America aroused great public attention. Among many other things, Blumenthal has published The Rise of the Counter-Establishment (1986), Pledging Allegiance: The Last Campaign of the Cold War (1990) and How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime. He writes regularly for The Washington Post, The New Yorker, The New Republic and Vanity Fair, and is currently a Senior Fellow at the New York University Center on Law and Security.