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A review by katekate_reads_
Pelosi by Molly Ball
4.0
I just finished Pelosi and it made me love Nancy Pelosi more with every chapter I read. I admired her before starting this but knew almost nothing about her personal life - I’ve really loved learning more and my mom has patiently listened to a lot of stories that start with “did you know Nancy Pelosi...”
As Ball wrote in the prologue “The story of Nancy Pelosi is the story of an extraordinary person who shattered the ‘marble ceiling’ and blazed a new trail for women. It’s the story of a career that stamped American history and helped enact policies that affected millions of lives. It’s a story about politics and perception and women in public life. It’s a story that will shape American life in the Trump era and beyond.
Because, as Pelosi would proceed to demonstrate, it wasn’t Trump’s Washington. It was hers.”
And of particular interest to us as avid readers perhaps - Pelosi’s first political role was on the San Francisco Public Library Commission. Ball wrote “Pelosi had spent a lot of time at the library with her kids; she’d also seen the institution through a political lens, as a vital resource for families that, unlike hers, couldn’t afford books of their own. The library, to her, was nothing less than a pillar of democracy.”
There were some parts that read a little slow for me and took me a while to get through. However I still highly recommend reading this book!
Thank you to Henry Holt and Netgalley for the free review copy.
As Ball wrote in the prologue “The story of Nancy Pelosi is the story of an extraordinary person who shattered the ‘marble ceiling’ and blazed a new trail for women. It’s the story of a career that stamped American history and helped enact policies that affected millions of lives. It’s a story about politics and perception and women in public life. It’s a story that will shape American life in the Trump era and beyond.
Because, as Pelosi would proceed to demonstrate, it wasn’t Trump’s Washington. It was hers.”
And of particular interest to us as avid readers perhaps - Pelosi’s first political role was on the San Francisco Public Library Commission. Ball wrote “Pelosi had spent a lot of time at the library with her kids; she’d also seen the institution through a political lens, as a vital resource for families that, unlike hers, couldn’t afford books of their own. The library, to her, was nothing less than a pillar of democracy.”
There were some parts that read a little slow for me and took me a while to get through. However I still highly recommend reading this book!
Thank you to Henry Holt and Netgalley for the free review copy.