Exclusive: How Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi pushed Barack Obama to go big on health care Susan Page, USA TODAY © Evan Vucci, AP Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, stands with Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., during a rally for Obama at American University on Monday, Jan. 28, 2008, in Washington. Kennedy calling him a man with extraordinary gifts of leadership and character, a worthy heir to his assassinated brother. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ORG XMIT: DCEV110
This story is adapted from “Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power,” which will be published April 20 by Twelve Books. Author Susan Page, the Washington Bureau chief of USA TODAY, conducted 10 interviews with Pelosi for this biography and interviewed more than 150 other friends, family members, political allies and adversaries.
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