{"id":137570,"date":"2024-03-07T13:48:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T19:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=137570"},"modified":"2024-03-07T13:48:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T19:48:50","slug":"square-books-presents-an-evening-with-beto-orourke-for-weve-got-to-try-friday-march-8th-530-pm-at-off-square-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/square-books-presents-an-evening-with-beto-orourke-for-weve-got-to-try-friday-march-8th-530-pm-at-off-square-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Square Books Presents: An Evening with Beto O\u2019Rourke for &#8220;We\u2019ve Got To Try&#8221; Friday, March 8th, 5:30 pm at Off Square Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Activist and political leader Beto O\u2019Rourke blends history, sociology, and travelogue for a thrilling, inspiring case for how voting rights is essential to a productive and healthy democracy.\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the Book\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In <em>We\u2019ve Got To Try<\/em>, O\u2019Rourke shines a spotlight on the heroic life\u00a0and work of Dr. Lawrence Aaron Nixon and the west Texas town\u00a0where he made his stand. The son of an enslaved man, Nixon grew\u00a0up in the Confederate stronghold of Marshall, Texas before moving\u00a0to El Paso, becoming a civil rights leader, and helping to win one of\u00a0the most significant civil and voting rights victories in American\u00a0history: the defeat of the all-white primary. His fight for the ballot\u00a0spanned 20 years and twice took him to the U.S. Supreme Court.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With heart, eloquence, and powerful storytelling, O\u2019Rourke weaves\u00a0together Nixon\u2019s story with those of other great Texans who\u00a0changed the course of voting rights and improved America\u2019s\u00a0democracy. While connecting voting rights and democracy to the\u00a0major issues of our time, O\u2019Rourke also shares what he saw, heard,\u00a0and learned while on his own journey throughout the 254 counties of his home state. By telling the stories of those he met along the way and bringing us into the epicenter of the current fight against voter suppression, the former El Paso Congressman shows just how essential it is that the sacred right to vote is protected and that we each do our part to save our democracy for generations to come.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the Author\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Beto O\u2019Rourke <\/strong>is a fourth-generation Texan, born and raised in El Paso where he has served as a small business owner, a city council representative and a member of Congress. He founded and currently leads Powered by People, a Texas-based organization that works to expand democracy and produce Democratic victories through voter registration and direct voter engagement. Beto is married to Amy O\u2019Rourke and together they are raising Ulysses, Molly and Henry in El Paso\u2019s historic Sunset Heights.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>We\u2019ve Got To Try\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><br>By Beto O\u2019Rourke\u00a0<br>$18.99\u00a0<br>Publisher: Flatiron Books <br>ISBN: 9781250852465 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activist and political leader Beto O\u2019Rourke blends history, sociology, and travelogue for a thrilling, inspiring case for how<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":137571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2239],"tags":[28092,5,13759,4,792],"class_list":["post-137570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-literary-events","tag-beto-orourke","tag-mississippi","tag-off-square-books-2","tag-oxford","tag-texas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/BetoORourke.jpg?fit=1242%2C1552&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137572,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137570\/revisions\/137572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}