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Author:

Page, Susan, 1951- author.

Title:

Madam Speaker : Nancy Pelosi and the lessons of power / Susan Page.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Twelve,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

viii, 438 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Subject:

Pelosi, Nancy,--1940-
United States.--House--House--Speakers--Biography.
Women legislators--United States--Biography.
Legislators--United States--Biography.
United States.--House--House--Biography.
United States--Politics and government--1989-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-424) and index.

Summary:

Before she was Nancy Pelosi, she was Nancy DAlesandro. Her father was a big-city mayor and her mother his political organizer; when she encourƯaged her young daughter to become a nun, Nancy told her mother that being a priest sounded more appealing. She didnt begin running for office until she was forty-six years old, her five children mostly out of the nest. With that, she found her calling. Nancy Pelosi has lived on the cutting edge of the revolution in both womens roles and in the nations movement to a fiercer and more polarized politics. She has established herself as a crucial friend or forƯmidable foe to U.S. presidents, a master legislator, and an indefatigable political warrior. She took on the Democratic establishment to become the first female Speaker of the House, then battled rivals on the left and right to consolidate her power. She has soared in the sharp-edged inside game of politics, though she has struggled in the outside game demonized by conservatives, second-guessed by progressives, and routinely underestimated by nearly everyone.

ISBN:

1538750694
9781538750698

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1245231617

LCCN:

bl2021008284

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