We Were Eight Years in Power

Name: We Were Eight Years in Power
Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Essays documenting America's racial reckoning during Obama presidency and beyond

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Ta-Nehisi Coates

American journalist and author whose Between the World and Me, written as a letter to his son, won the National Book Award for its unflinching account of what it means to inhabit a Black body in America. We Were Eight Years in Power is a collection of Obama-era essays. He is the most important Black essayist of his generation.

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