{"product_id":"9781250852472","title":"We've Got to Try: How the Fight for Voting Rights Makes Everything Else Possible","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith heart, eloquence, and powerful storytelling, Beto O'Rourke weaves together the heroic life and work of civil rights leader Dr. Lawrence Aaron Nixon, connecting voting rights and democracy to the major issues of our time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn We've Got To Try, O'Rourke shines a spotlight on the west Texas town where Nixon made his stand. The son of an enslaved man, Nixon grew up in the Confederate stronghold of Marshall, Texas before moving to El Paso, becoming a \u003cb\u003ecivil rights\u003c\/b\u003e leader, and helping to win one of the most significant \u003cb\u003evoting rights\u003c\/b\u003e victories in American history: the defeat of the all-white primary. His fight for the ballot spanned 20 years and twice took him to the U.S. Supreme Court.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eO'Rourke weaves together Nixon's story with those of other great Texans who changed the course of \u003cb\u003evoting rights\u003c\/b\u003e and improved America's \u003cb\u003edemocracy\u003c\/b\u003e. While connecting voting rights and democracy to the major issues of our time, O'Rourke also shares what he saw, heard, and 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 \u003cb\u003evoter suppression\u003c\/b\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flatiron Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46601307422961,"sku":"9781250852472","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781250852472_p0.jpg?v=1765509245","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781250852472","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}