Arc of Power: Inside Nancy Pelosi's Speakership, 2005-2010

ISBN-13: 9780700633791 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 384 str.

John A. Lawrence

Spis treści

• Dedication and Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Prologue: Discouraged, Disorganized, Defeated
• 1. The New Direction: “:6 for ‘06”
• 2. “I Had to Win the House First”

  3. Madam Speaker

• 4. “Everything Becomes Urgent”
• 5. “The Slowest Ship”
• 6. The Economy Wobbles
• 7. “The Flagship”
• 8. “You Can’t Have It the Way You Want to Have It”
• 9. “The Prospects Don’t Look Good”
• 10. Yes, We Can!
• 11. The Abyss
• 12. “We Have to Look Out for Ourselves”
• 13. “The Country Is Falling Apart!”
• 14. “Like Swans going Across the Lake”
• 15. The Firehose
• 16. Short-Circuited
• 17. “Number One among Equals”
• 18. The Summer of Hate
• 19. “The Most Important Bill You Will Ever Vote For”
• 20. “Let’s Go for It!”
• 21. The Unwinnable War
• 22. ”Keep Steering the Ship”
• 23. The Unfinished Agenda
• 24. The “Shellacking”
• 25. Their Last Bow
• Conclusion: The Perishability of Power
• Notes
• Bibliographical Guide to the John A. Lawrence Papers
• Selected Bibliography
• Index