Ann Richards: A Woman's Place is in the Dome
By (author) April D. Stumpff
Hardcover
(McWhiney Foundation Press, Aug. 16, 2009)
Ann Richards was one of the best-known and beloved governors in Texas history, the only woman to be elected to that office on her own merits. But she was also a controversial figure, having been elected after admitting to struggling with alcoholism and divorce, and being a Democrat in a Republican state to boot. Dorothy Ann Willis was a native Texan, born near Waco in 1933. She experienced a typic...