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    Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates is an American author and journalist. Coates gained a wide readership during...

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Leslie Odom Jr. recommended We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy in Books (curated)

 
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
Ta-Nehisi Coates | 2017 | Essays, History & Politics
9.5 (2 Ratings)
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"I thought I was too raw after November 8th to read this one. I was a fool. Healing and informative. They’ve been teaching the Civil War all wrong. Thank you, Ta-Nehisi Coates."

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Teagan Wolf (0 KP) rated Between the World and Me: Notes on the First 150 Years in America in Books

Jan 29, 2018  
Between the World and Me: Notes on the First 150 Years in America
Between the World and Me: Notes on the First 150 Years in America
Ta-Nehisi Coates | 2015 | Biography
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9.0 (6 Ratings)
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This was the first book I read by Ta Nehisi Coates and it was one of the best books I've ever read. I picked it up on a Monday and it was finished that Wednesday. It's that good.
  
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Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy in Books

Nov 16, 2017  
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
Ta-Nehisi Coates | 2017 | Essays, History & Politics
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9.5 (2 Ratings)
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An honest look at the Obama years
The simplest way to describe "We Were Eight Years in Power" is as a selection of Ta-Nehisi Coates' most influential pieces from The Atlantic, organised chronologically. The book is actually far more than that, establishing Coates as the pre-eminent black public intellectual of his generation.

Coates is one of the first to show up to discuss all three contemporary themes: the man, the community, national identity. He critiques respectability politics. He writes about mass incarceration. He writes about Michelle Obama and Chicago's South Side. He writes about how Barack Obama was exceptional, in many senses, and about the paradoxical limits of the first black president's power to address race and racism. He writes about the qualitative difference between white economic prospects and black economic prospects, thanks to discriminatory policies promulgated by the government even during progressive times, and about how, in his view, reparations would be the only way to redress the problem.

An air of resignation begins to bleed into Coates' writing even before his last essay, coming into the final years of the Obama administration. It is an eloquent eulogy to the struggles that African Americans are facing and increasingly fearing today.