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Madam Speaker : Nancy Pelosi and the lessons of power / Susan Page.
Van Pelt Library E840.8.P37 P34 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Page, Susan, 1951- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Congress. House.
- Women legislators--United States--Biography.
- Women legislators.
- United States.
- Legislators--United States--Biography.
- Legislators.
- Orators.
- Politics and government.
- Pelosi, Nancy, 1940-.
- Pelosi, Nancy.
- United States. Congress. House--Speakers--Biography.
- United States. Congress. House--Biography.
- United States--Politics and government--1989-.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 438 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Nanci Pelosi and the lessons of power
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Twelve, 2021.
- Summary:
- A New York Times best-selling author and USA Today Washington bureau chief offers a new biography of Nancy Pelosi, one of the most powerful women in American politics.
- Nancy D'Alesandro Pelosi didn't begin running for office until she was forty-six years old, her five children mostly out of the nest. Since then she has lived on the cutting edge of the revolution in both women's roles and in the nation's movement to a fiercer and more polarized politics. She has been a crucial friend or formidable foe to U.S. presidents, a master legislator, and an indefatigable political warrior. When Donald Trump was elected to the White House, Pelosi became the Democratic counterpart best able to stand up to the disruptive president and to get under his skin. The battle between Trump and Pelosi, chronicled in this book with behind-the-scenes details and revelations, stands to be the titanic political struggle of our time. -- adapted from jacket
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. One Tommy the Elder and Big Nancy
- ch. Two Welcome to America
- ch. Three Little Nancy and the Favor File
- ch. Four Scandal
- ch. Five A View of the Capitol
- ch. Six "Proper Preparation Prevents Poor Performance"
- ch. Seven Runway
- ch. Eight Sala
- ch. Nine Earthquake
- ch. Ten "I Don't Think These Boys Know How to Win"
- ch. Eleven War
- ch. Twelve Leader
- ch. Thirteen Meltdown
- ch. Fourteen PelosiCare
- ch. Fifteen Back in the Wilderness
- ch. Sixteen Pelosi v. Trump: Round One
- ch. Seventeen The Speaker and the Squad
- ch. Eighteen "You Have Come into My Wheelhouse"
- ch. Nineteen The Coronavirus Campaign.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-424) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781538750698
- 1538750694
- OCLC:
- 1245231617
- Publisher Number:
- 99987776731
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