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    ‘Pelosi’ tracks the career of a powerful, driven politician

    May 11, 2020 3 minutes

    Barack Obama was no darling of the right, but in the months leading up to the 2010 midterm elections, Nancy Pelosi was featured in more than twice as many Republican attack ads than the man who was then serving as president. “Pelosi just got a rise out of people,” journalist Molly Ball notes in her sharp, lively biography of the Democratic leader titled, simply, “Pelosi.”

    Ball, the national political correspondent for Time magazine, offers several explanations

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