Preface and Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1 Madam Speaker; Chapter 2 Getting There; Chapter 3 Power in the House; Chapter 4 The Outside Game; Chapter 5 Governing; Chapter 6 Gender; Chapter 7 Leadership; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Ron Peters, one of America's leading scholars of Congress, and Cindy Simon Rosenthal, one of America's leading scholars on women and political leadership, provide a comprehensive account of how Pelosi became speaker and what this tells us about Congress in the twenty-first century
