THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The most powerful woman in American political
history tells the story of her transformation from housewife to House Speaker – how she became
a master legislator a key partner to presidents and the most visible leader of the Trump
resistance. When at age forty-six Nancy Pelosi mother of five asked her youngest
daughter if she should run for Congress Alexandra Pelosi answered: ‘Mother get a life!’ And
so Nancy did and what a life it has been. In The Art of Power Pelosi describes for the
first time what it takes to make history – not only as the first woman to ascend to the most
powerful legislative role in America but to pass laws that would save lives and livelihoods
from the emergency rescue of the economy in 2008 to transforming health care. She describes the
perseverance persuasion and respect for her members that it took to succeed but also the joy
of seeing America change for the better. Among the best-prepared and hardest-working Speakers
in history Pelosi worked to find common ground or stand her ground with presidents from Bush
to Biden. She also shares moving moments with soldiers sent to the front lines women who
inspired her and human rights activists who fought by her side. Pelosi took positions that
established her as a prophetic voice on the major moral issues of the day warning early about
the dangers of the Iraq War and of the Chinese government’s long record of misbehaviour. This
moral courage prepared her for the arrival of Trump with whom she famously tangled becoming a
red-coated symbol of resistance to his destructive presidency. Here she reveals how she went
toe-to-toe with Trump leading up to January 6 2021 when he unleashed his post-election fury
on the Congress. Pelosi gives us her personal account of that day: the assault not only on the
symbol of our democracy but on the men and women who had come to serve the nation never
expecting to hide under desks or flee for their lives – and her determined efforts to get the
National Guard to the Capitol. Nearly two years later violence and fury would erupt inside
Pelosi’s own home when an intruder demanding to see the Speaker viciously attacked her
beloved husband Paul. Here Pelosi shares that horrifying day and the traumatic aftermath for
her and her family.
