Nancy Pelosi's True Grit

Political journalist Molly Ball explains how the first female Speaker of the House has beaten the men--including Donald Trump--at their own game

When I saw it in the bookstore last May, I had to have it: Molly Ball’s Pelosi (MacMillan, 2020). Until just before the Covid-19 lockdown, I had been working for Elizabeth Warren, and I was making the turn to support Joe Biden.

But I had some time to kill before the serious national campaigning began, I was discouraged about the failure of all the femal…