Former House Speaker and current California Democratic Representative Nancy Pelosi will release an autobiography about her decades as a senior American lawmaker.
Pelosi has written a book entitled The Art of Power: My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House. The volume will cover her “transformation from housewife to House Speaker” and her emergence as “the most visible leader of the Trump resistance.”
“Pelosi describes for the first time what it takes to make history: not only as the first woman to ascend to the most powerful legislative role in our nation, but to pass laws that would save lives and livelihoods, from the emergency rescue of the economy in 2008 to transforming health care,” reads a summary by Simon and Schuster. “She describes the perseverance, persuasion, and respect for her members that it took to succeed, but also the joy of seeing America change for the better. Among the best-prepared and hardest working Speakers in history, Pelosi worked to find common ground, or stand her ground, with presidents from Bush to Biden.”
The eighty-four-year-old lawmaker was first elected in 1987 and has represented her northern California district ever since. Beyond stints as House Minority Whip, House Democratic Caucus Leader, and Minority Leader, she served as Speaker from 2007 to 2011 and once more from 2019 to 2023. She resigned her role in Democratic leadership two years ago.
Simon and Schuster wrote that Pelosi “took positions that established her as a prophetic voice on the major moral issues of the day,” specifically with reference to policy on Iraq and China. Yet Pelosi has generated controversy for her apparently opportune stock market picks, drawing accusations that she has traded on confidential information and inspiring legislation to ban individual stock trading for members of Congress and their spouses. Her husband, Paul Pelosi, runs a real estate and venture capital investment firm based in San Francisco.
Pelosi is not the only senior longtime federal official with a forthcoming biography: Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is slated to release a memoir about his controversial public health career this summer.
