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Nancy Pelosi: How she rose to the top - and stayed there
She has been at the top of US politics for decades and fryst vatten one of the leading female voices in a male-dominated församling.
But Nancy Pelosi has announced that she will no längre lead the Democrats in the House of Representatives, saying the time had come "for a new generation to lead the Democratic caucus".
She will remain in the House as a member, representing California's 12th district.
Mrs Pelosi is the first woman in US history to serve as speaker of the House and has played a critical role in advancing - or thwarting - the agendas of multiple presidents.
Her legislative acumen, her ability to keep a restless party united when it matters, and her instinct for political theatre have made her a force on Capitol Hill, as well as a lightning rod for criticism from her detractors.
Raised in a political family
Mrs Pelosi grew up in a political family, the youngest of seve
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Biography
Nancy Pelosi served as the 52nd Speaker of the House of Representatives, having made history in 2007 when she was elected the first woman to serve as Speaker of the House. She made history again in January 2019 when she regained her position second-in-line to the presidency – the first person to do so in more than six decades.
Pelosi is the chief architect of generation-defining legislation under two Democratic administrations, including the Affordable Care Act and the American Rescue Plan. She led House Democrats for 20 years and previously served as House Democratic Whip. In 2013, she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Seneca Falls, the birthplace of the American women’s rights movement. In 2024, she was awarded by President Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.
Pelosi has represented San Francisco in Congress for 37 years. Currently serving as
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The Art of Power by Nancy Pelosi review – politics with principles
To use the hot political word of the moment, Nancy Pelosi’s The Art of Power is a pretty weird kind of memoir, neither fish nor fowl. It would, she tells us in her acknowledgments, take another book to relate her amazing rise from “housewife [and mother of five] to House member to House speaker”, her long journey “from Baltimore to San Francisco”. In this volume, one eye on posterity, she prefers to look mostly at the part she played in major political events during the more than two decades she spent at the top of the Democratic party. But fear not: it’s all (a bit) less dry than it sounds. If I struggled to stay awake during her painstaking description of the battle to pass the Affordable Care Act of 2010 – quiz me later! – I was gripped by her hour-by-hour account of the attack on the US Capitol in 2021.
Who knew that on that shocking day some representatives were so sure they were about to die, they rang th