Straight from the Heart

Ann Richards—now the subject of the Broadway play Ann—tells her life story in her own trademark candor and spicy humor.

Straight from the Heart is Ann Richards’s story, told with the candor and spicy humor that were her trademarks. Born in a tiny town near Waco, Texas, she entered politics when her husband wouldn’t—and went on to become state treasurer, the first woman elected to statewide office in Texas in fifty years. She had her victories and her battles (the breakup of a thirty-year mar...