Nancy Pelosi
Author of The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
About the Author
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Works by Nancy Pelosi
The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House (2024) 113 copies, 3 reviews
Associated Works
The Faith of Elijah Cummings: The North Star of Equal Justice (2021) — Contributor — 36 copies, 1 review
What Are We For? The Words and Ideals of Eleanor Roosevelt (2019) — Foreword, some editions — 21 copies
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Pelosi, Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro
- Other names
- D'Alesandro, Nancy Patricia (born)
- Birthdate
- 1940-03-26
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Places of residence
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
New York, New York, USA
San Francisco, California, USA - Education
- Institute of Notre Dame, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Trinity Washington University (then Trinity College|B.A.|Political Science|1962) - Occupations
- politician
Member of the Democratic National Committee (1976-1996)
political operative
U.S. Congressman (California|1987- |Democrat)
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (2007-2011|Democrat) - Relationships
- Pelosi, Alexandra (daughter)
- Organizations
- Democratic Party
National Organization of Italian American Women
National Italian American Foundation - Awards and honors
- National Italian American Foundation Special Achievement Award (Public Policy)
Members
Reviews
I can hear Nancy’s voice as I read this. It’s more an over view of her achievements in congress than I biography or tell all. She does dump on Trump and give a few more details about January 6 and impeachments, though not enough. Interesting read but in a decade I want a fuller account of congress in these depressing times.
Ghost written and sometimes repetitive, but good summary overall of Pelosi‘s remarkable achievements. I really like her voice when she’s interviewed. Quite the character. Unfortunately that doesn’t really come across in the book.
Nancy Pelosi is an interesting public figure, but this book felt very ghostwritten (and not especially well, either). I certainly could have done a better job myself. Not to mention that I accidentally checked out a large print copy, which I never enjoy reading. (Not related: I can't believe how short this book is. The large print edition is maybe half a centimeter thick; can't imagine what it looks like in regular print. More like a pamphlet than a book.)
Favorite points:
"'Never fight a fight as if it's your last one.' Good advice, once again, from Lindy Boggs. I've been in politics long enough to know that while there are eternal friendships... there is no such thing as an eternal opponent."
"Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle." —Thomas Jefferson, quoted in book.… (more)
Favorite points:
"'Never fight a fight as if it's your last one.' Good advice, once again, from Lindy Boggs. I've been in politics long enough to know that while there are eternal friendships... there is no such thing as an eternal opponent."
"Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle." —Thomas Jefferson, quoted in book.… (more)
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Statistics
- Works
- 3
- Also by
- 3
- Members
- 222
- Popularity
- #100,929
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 6
- ISBNs
- 12
- Favorited
- 2
I can see nothing that suggests this is ghost written, but any political book will have been scrutinised by government before publication.