Woman of the house 2008 biography
While the Democratic nominee for President will likely emerge from the primaries bloody and bruised, the always-smiling, confoundingly popular Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, will be front and center as the party heads to its National....
In this balanced, thoroughly researched biography, Bzdek chronicles the career of the country's most powerful woman.
Woman of the House: The Rise of Nancy Pelosi
October 12, 2019
Woman of the House, The Rise of Nancy Pelosi is a biography of Nancy Pelosi written by Vincent Bzdek and published in 2008. It covers her whole life, from her childhood to her first year or so as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Woman of the House, The Rise of Nancy Pelosi is one of the nearly twenty books about politicians I read in the summer of 2019 while researching a book about incumbents, candidates, and other politicians.
Woman of the House, The Rise of Nancy Pelosi is one of the nearly twenty books about politicians I read in the summer of 2019 while researching a book about incumbents, candidates, and other politicians.
Published in 2008, it is the oldest of the biographies I read for this project.
I am giving the book 3 of 5 stars because, although it is interesting and reasonably thorough, it is also a bit out of date. Also, the book contains a lot of identity politics - something I personally feel is distracting, off-topic, and anachronistic.
I read this book to learn about Nancy Pelosi, not all the other women who were first to do this or that.
One of the most entertaining things I learned