Pelosi repeatedly humbled Donald Trump. Already this year, she has outlasted his acolytes’ invasion of the Capitol and helped jam Joe Biden’s Covid relief through Congress. Hers is an “iron fist” wrapped in a “Gucci glove”, in the words of Susan Page and John Bresnahan of Punchbowl.
This latest Pelosi biography traces her trajectory from Baltimore to DC. Geographically circuitous, Pelosi’s ascent was neither plodding nor meteoric.
Page delivers a worthwhile and documented read, a running interview with her subject together with quotes from friends and foes. Andy Card, chief of staff to Bush, and Newt Gingrich, a disgraced House speaker, both pay grudging tribute to the congresswoman from San Francisco.
By Susan Page
Twelve: 448 pages, $33
Itâs difficult to write a fresh-sounding biography of a woman who has been in Washington longer than some members of Congress have been alive.
But even longtime watchers of House Speaker Nancy Nancy Pelosi will learn something new about the most powerful woman in the country â and how she got that way â from USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Pageâs new biography, âMadam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power,â out this week.
Page notes the potential pitfalls in exploring such a known quantity, noting Pelosiâs tendency to recite the same quotes by Thomas Paine, Abraham Lincoln, even Ronald Reagan; her ability to stay relentlessly on message; and her unwillingness to dish to reporters. Some well-trod anecdotes make their way into the book, but Pageâs unprecedented access to the two-time speaker â 10 conversations over two years and interviews with 150 of Pelosiâs family members, fri
By Susan Page
Twelve: 448 pages, $33
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It’s difficult to write a fresh-sounding biography of a woman who has been in Washington longer than some members of Congress have been alive.
But even longtime watchers of House Speaker Nancy Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) will learn something new about the most powerful woman in the country and how she got that way from USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page’s new biography, “Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power,” out this week.
By gregladen on December 28, 2012.
Climate Change Misinformer Of The Year: Marc Morano
ClimateDepot.com founder Marc Morano has been called the Matt Drudge of climate denial, the king of the skeptics, and a central cell of the climate-denial machine, and he revels in these descriptions. Although he has no scientific expertise, he is adamant that manmade global warming is a con job based on subprime science. Morano gained prominence working for two of the most vocal climate deniers in the U.S.: Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), who notoriously called climate change the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people, and Rush Limbaugh, who we named Climate Change Misinformer of the Year in 2011 for his steadfast denial of climate science and wild conspiracy theories about the climate change hoax.
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