If I struggled to stay awake during her painstaking description of the battle to pass the Affordable Care Act of 2010... I was gripped by her hour-by-hour account of the attack on the US Capitol in 2021 ... Pelosi isn’t much interested in self-criticism; nor does her book explain, even slightly, how an 84-year-old woman continues to exert such influence on the Democratic party ... Like all politicians everywhere, she falls back on, at best, sophistry and, at worst, willed blindness when it suits her ... But The Art of Power, so sober and detailed, has brought me to reassess her.
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