The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the HouseThe most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from housewife to House Speakerhow she became a master legislator, a key partner to presidents, and the most visible leader of the Trump resistance. When, at age forty six, Nancy Pelosi, mother of five, asked her youngest daughter if she should run for Congress, Alexandra Pelosi answered: Mother, get a life! And so Nancy did, and what a life it has been. In The