Woman of the House The Rise of Nancy Pelosi

Woman of the House chronicles the career of the country's most powerful woman-from her blue-collar Baltimore roots and her politically formative years in San Francisco to her twenty-year congressional career-and traces her rise to the highest political office ever held by an American woman. In compelling and incisive prose, journalist Vincent Bzdek shines a light on the nuts and bolts that make up the person who is two heartbeats away from the presidency. Book jacket.

Vincent Bzdek is the news editor and a features writer at The Washington Post.  He has also written for The Wall Street Journal, Wired Magazine and The Denver Post. He lives in Washington, D.C.