St. Bill! In Sid’s Gospelby Andrew Sullivan The Clinton Wars, by Sidney Blumenthal. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 822 pages, $30. Only a few chapters into Sidney Blumenthal’s extraordinary account of the Clinton Presidency, it dawned on me what the book reminded me of. I wonder why it took me so long. It’s not that I am unused to Sidney’s prose, or his politics, or his inimitable intellectual hauteur. I’d spent well over a year editing his essays for The New Republic during the Clinton campaign in 1991 and 1992. I’d spent what must have been an accumulated few days of...