We Were Eight Years in Power

We Were Eight Years in Power
Author	Ta-Nehisi Coates
Subject	Race in the United States
Published	October 3, 2017 (One World)
Pages	416
ISBN	978-0-399-59056-6

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy is a collection of essays by Ta-Nehisi Coates originally from The Atlantic magazine between 2008 and 2016 over the course of the American Barack Obama administration. It includes the titles that launched his career: "The Case for Reparations" and "The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration". Each of the essays is introduced with the author's reflections.^[1]

Time magazine listed We Were Eight Years in Power as one of its top ten non-fiction books of 2017.^[2]

Essays[]

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Rev. of We Were Eight Years in Power". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved October 2, 2017.
^ Howorth, Claire (November 21, 2017). "The Top 10 Non-Fiction Books of 2017". Time. Retrieved December 13, 2017.

Further reading[]

Senior, Jennifer (October 1, 2017). "Through the Lens of the Obama Years, Ta-Nehisi Coates Reckons With Race, Identity and Trump". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
León, Concepción De (September 29, 2017). "Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Making of a Public Intellectual". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
Muyumba, Walton (September 29, 2017). "Ta-Nehisi Coates blazes a singular intellectual path in 'We Were Eight Years in Power'". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035.
Lozada, Carlos (September 27, 2017). "Ta-Nehisi Coates and the fear of a black writer". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 2, 2017.
Green, Lloyd (September 27, 2017). "Ta-Nehisi Coates' new book a bitter lament that deserves to be heard". Fox News. Retrieved October 2, 2017.
Nelson, Sean (September 7, 2017). "Ta-Nehisi Coates's 'The First White President' Is Required Reading, No Matter How Sick You Are of DFT". The Stranger. Retrieved October 2, 2017.
"'We Were 8 Years in Power': Ta-Nehisi Coates on Obama, Trump & White Fear of 'Good Negro Government'". Democracy Now!. August 15, 2017. Retrieved October 2, 2017.
Gettell, Oliver (June 12, 2017). "Ta-Nehisi Coates Unveils Cover for Obama-Era Book 'We Were Eight Years in Power'". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved October 2, 2017.
Hassler, Chelsea (October 1, 2017). "We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy". Popsugar. Retrieved October 2, 2017.
Young, Kevin (November 3, 2017). "Between the Presidency and Him". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.

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[PW-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Rev. of We Were Eight Years in Power". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved October 2, 2017.

[2] Howorth, Claire (November 21, 2017). "The Top 10 Non-Fiction Books of 2017". Time. Retrieved December 13, 2017.

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