TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ball,Molly
TI  - Pelosi
SN  - 1250252865
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York, New York
PB  - Henry Holt and Company
KW  - Pelosi, Nancy,
KW  - Women politicians
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages [320]-329) and index
N2  - She's the iconic leader who puts Donald Trump in his place, the woman with the toughness to take on a lawless president and defend American democracy. Ever since the Democrats took back the House in the 2018 midterm elections, Nancy Pelosi has led the opposition with strategic mastery and inimitable elan. It's a remarkable comeback for the veteran politician who for years was demonized by the right and taken for granted by many in her own party--even though, as speaker under President Barack Obama, she deserves much of the credit for epochal liberal accomplishments from universal access to health care to saving the US economy from collapse, from reforming Wall Street to allowing gay people to serve openly in the military. How did an Italian grandmother in four-inch heels become the greatest legislator since LBJ?  Ball's nuanced, page-turning portrait takes readers inside the life and times of this historic and underappreciated figure. Based on exclusive interviews with the Speaker and deep background reporting, Ball shows Pelosi through a thoroughly modern lens to explain how this extraordinary woman has met her moment
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