We Were Eight Years in Power: An American TragedyIn this urgently relevant* collection featuring the landmark essay The Case for Reparations, the National Book Awardwinning author of Between the World and Me reflects on race, Barack Obamas presidency and its jarring aftermath*including the election of Donald Trump. New York Times Bestseller Finalist for the PEN Jean Stein Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Dayton Literary Peace PrizeNamed One of the Best Books of the Year by The
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In this “urgently relevant”* collection featuring the landmark essay “The Case for Reparations,” 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.
New York TimesBestseller • Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, theLos Angeles TimesBook Prize, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Named One of the Best Books of the Year byThe New York Times•USA Today•Time•Los Angeles Times•San Francisco Chronicle•Essence•O: The Oprah Magazine•The Week•Kirkus Reviews
*Kirkus Reviews(starred review)
“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.”