Ann G Richard

An inspirational and exciting book that explains the processes and potential of weaving high-twist yarns into fabrics that are transformed by washingWeaving with high-twist yarns and contrasting materials can create fabrics with lively textures and elastic properties. Although these fabrics are flat...

In the late 1990s, West Texas was full of rundown towns and pumpjacks, aging reminders of the oil rush of an earlier era. Today, the towns are thriving as 300-foot-tall wind turbines tower above those pumpjacks. Wind energy has become Texas’s latest boom, with the Lone Star State now leading the nat...

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 h...

Winner, Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize, Texas State Historical Association, 2012Liz Carpenter Award for Research in the History of Women, Texas State Historical Association, 2012When Ann Richards delivered the keynote of the 1988 Democratic National Convention and mocked President George H. W. B...

Covers the public and private life of the second female governor of Texas, from her childhood in the small town of Lakeview through her one term in the state's highest office.