Irene's Reviews > Pelosi

This is a political biography of Nancy Pelosi. Although there is far more talk of her high heels or the classy, understated clothes she wore than would be found in any political review of a man, a reality that I suspect Pelosi would resent, there is very little of Pelosi’s personal life in this book. This is a flattering portrait of a powerful political figure of the Democratic Party. Despite going into this book with a positive opinion of Pelosi, this felt unbalanced. Apparently Pelosi has and never had any faults. While every moment of Pelosi’s political career is recounted in glowing language, her opponents’ actions, words and motivations are described with negatively loaded language. There was nothing here that I could not have gleaned from news coverage over the past several decades. I would have appreciated either more in-depth political analysis or more behind the curtain revelations of her more private life. I received this from the publisher in exchange for my honest review.