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092    BIO|bPELOSI 
100 1  Page, Susan,|eauthor. 
245 10 Madam Speaker :|bNancy Pelosi and the lessons of power /
       |cSusan Page. 
246 3  Nancy Pelosi and the lessons of power 
264  1 New York :|bTwelve,|c2021. 
300    viii, 438 pages :|billustrations (chiefly color) ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
336    still image|bsti|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    Featuring more than 150 exclusive interviews with those 
       who know her best—and a series of in-depth, news-making 
       interviews with Pelosi herself—MADAM SPEAKER is 
       unprecedented in the scope of its exploration of Nancy 
       Pelosi’s remarkable life and of her indelible impact on 
       American politics.   Before she was Nancy Pelosi, she was 
       Nancy D’Alesandro. Her father was a big-city mayor and her
       mother his political organizer; when she encour­aged her 
       young daughter to become a nun, Nancy told her mother that
       being a priest sounded more appealing. She didn’t 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 women’s roles and in the 
       nation’s movement to a fiercer and more polarized 
       politics. She has established herself as a crucial friend 
       or for­midable 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.   All of this was 
       preparation for the most historic challenge she would ever
       face, at a time she had been privately planning her 
       retirement. When Donald Trump was elected to the White 
       House, Nancy 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. 
600 10 Pelosi, Nancy,|d1940- 
610 10 United States.|bCongress.|bHouse|xSpeakers|vBiography. 
650  0 Women legislators|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Legislators|zUnited States|vBiography. 
651  0 United States|xPolitics and government|y1989-