I have spent the last three years immersed in a book on the life of Bella Abzug (1920-1998), the peace activist, feminist, civil rights lawyer, and fearless congresswoman from New York. (She ran for office for the first time at age 50 – take heed, sister Boomers!) Now that it is about to come out, I am hoping that her passion will galvanize the cynical among its readers, the way she did me. Bella’s example literally got me through the recent political years of double-talk, triangulation, and – to use …