“After three decades as a congresswoman from California, nearly half of that time as the leader of the House Democrats, Pelosi said she was getting ready to take a breath, dote on her nine grandchildren, perhaps write her memoirs,” Susan Page of USA Today writes in her upcoming book “Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power.”
The book consists of 10 interviews with Pelosi and 150 interviews from political friends and foes and family members close to her.
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The book details Pelosi’s confidence that former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton
Pelosi’s plans were to retire from her long tenure in office after Clinton became president, as she would be confident her policies would be protected by the new commander in chief.