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We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Also by Ta-Nehisi Coates:

We Were Eight Years in Power, October 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
Black Panther, October 2016
Paperback / e-Book
Between the World and Me, July 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
The Beautiful Struggle, January 2009
Paperback
The Beautiful Struggle, May 2008
Hardcover

We Were Eight Years in Power
Ta-Nehisi Coates

An American Tragedy

One World
October 2017
On Sale: October 3, 2017
400 pages
ISBN: 0399590560
EAN: 9780399590566
Kindle: B01MT734OD
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir | Non-Fiction Political

In these “urgently relevant essays,”* the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me “reflects on race, Barack Obama’s presidency and its jarring aftermath”*—including the election of Donald Trump.

“We were eight years in power” was the lament of Reconstruction-era black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democracy ended with the return of white supremacist rule in the South. In this sweeping collection of new and selected essays, Ta-Nehisi Coates explores the tragic echoes of that history in our own time: the unprecedented election of a black president followed by a vicious backlash that fueled the election of the man Coates argues is America’s “first white president.”

But the story of these present-day eight years is not just about presidential politics. This book also examines the new voices, ideas, and movements for justice that emerged over this period—and the effects of the persistent, haunting shadow of our nation’s old and unreconciled history. Coates powerfully examines the events of the Obama era from his intimate and revealing perspective—the point of view of a young writer who begins the journey in an unemployment office in Harlem and ends it in the Oval Office, interviewing a president.

We Were Eight Years in Power features Coates’s iconic essays first published in The Atlantic, including “Fear of a Black President,” “The Case for Reparations,” and “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration,” along with eight fresh essays that revisit each year of the Obama administration through Coates’s own experiences, observations, and intellectual development, capped by a bracingly original assessment of the election that fully illuminated the tragedy of the Obama era.

We Were Eight Years in Power is a vital account of modern America, from one of the definitive voices of this historic moment.

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