Molly Ball discusses her new book, Pelosi, with Mark Leibovich. This event will be live streamed on the Politics and Prose website, https://www.politics-prose.com/events.

For years, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was demonized by the Right while being taken for granted by her own party. Through a combination of skill, experience, and élan, she persevered, and is now arguably the most powerful woman in American political history.

In this deeply researched portrait, Ball, Time’s award-winning national political correspondent and a regular commentator on venues including NBC’s Meet the Press, CBS’s Face the Nation, and NPR, draws on exclusive interviews with the Speaker to track Pelosi’s extraordinary career, from her election to Congress in 1987 through her legislative accomplishments—universal health care, gays in the military—to her confrontations with Trump and dexterous managing of his impeachment.