Alexandra Pelosi

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About The Author

Alexandra Pelosi  began covering politics in Washington, DC for Conus Communications, a television news feed service, in 1993. In 1995, she moved to New York to work for Dateline NBC. In the summer of 1999, NBC News assigned Pelosi to move to Austin, Texas to cover the presidential campaign of George W. Bush. She brought her camcorder along, and made a movie, "Journeys With George," which aired on HBO on Election Night 2002 and received six Emmy nominations. In 2004, HBO ran her second documentary feature-length film, "Diary of a Political Tourist," on the Democratic primary race. Pelosi is the daughter of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, House Democratic Leader.

Books by Alexandra Pelosi

Sneaking Into the Flying Circus

How the Media Turn Our Presidential Campaigns into Freak Shows

By Alexandra Pelosi
Alexandra Pelosi, creator of the Emmy award-winning film Journeys with George and of Diary of a Political Tourist, makes her literary debut with an intimate look at the frenzied and grueling underbelly of presidential campaigning and the puppet role of the media.
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