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A review by ethanjpatton
The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House by Nancy Pelosi

2.0

An interesting person and career, but a downright bad book. A lot of political books are like this, but there's just no compulsion here outside of the occasions when the facts of the events themselves are compelling. 9/11 and Jan 6th were compelling historical events that require no special writing skill to convey. Everything else though suffers from the flat and dry writing as well as narration by Pelosi herself. Instead of communicating the story of her rise to power or skills of the trade, she spends most of the book relitigating events that we are already deeply familiar with. 

I believe a biography written by someone else would be a much better book than this. I also believe she should not run for re-election again and should pass the baton at this moment of desperate need for generational change in our politics.