A distinctive and effective legislative career was established by a deathbed endorsement and the fight against a DSA insurgent. This is the real story of the making of Nancy Pelosi.
The Democratic Party's policy to winning elections is grounded in choices taken by party leaders in the immediate wake of Ronald Reagan's election to the presidency in 1980. That year saw not only Jimmy Carter's surprising defeat, but also the demise of a generation of liberal lions in the Senate. A net loss ...