Hope and Hard TruthMary Beth Rogers has led an eventful life rooted in the weeds of Texas politics, occasionally savoring a few victoriesparticularly the 1990 governors race when, as campaign manager for Ann Richards, she did the impossible and put a Democratic woman in office. She also learned to absorb her lossesafter all, she was a liberal feminist in Americas most aggressively conservative state. Rogerss road to a political life was complex. Candidly and vulnerably,