Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. I'm your host Tracy Thomas and today we are

honored to welcome Beto O'Rourke to the show. He's a Democrat from Texas who served as a

US representative for its 16th congressional district from 2013 to 2019.

He also famously ran for president, governor, and Senate in the great state of Texas, and did you know he's

also an author? His latest book is now out in paperback and it's called

we've got to try how the fight for voting rights makes everything else possible it's a look at

the history of voting and civil rights and how that

history connects to the fights we're facing today, from gun control to

immigration to education and more. Today, Beto let me ask him about all sorts of issues ranging from political

candidates and how they don't reflect the electorate to how he came up with the

idea for his book and why he wanted to come on this very podcast.

Don't forget our November book club selection is the novel Severance by Ling Ma

and we will discuss that book on Wednesday November 29th with Mitchell S Jackson.

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