Nancy Pelosi has been the most powerful woman in American history. She was the first female speaker of the House and remains an influential adviser to presidents, including Joe Biden in recent weeks. She was instrumental in passing everything from the 2008 financial bailout to the Affordable Care Act. But in her new book "The Art of Power" Pelosi starts out not with a legislative triumph but with a personal tragedy, when her husband was brutally attacked by an intruder who was searching for her. "The Art of Power" is on bookshelves now. USA TODAY Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page recently sat down with Nancy Pelosi to talk about what this book meant to her.

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