Name: We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
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Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates
ISBN: 9780241982495

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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

Type

Physical Book

Author

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Publisher

Penguin

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

320

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780241982495

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

Ta-Nehisi Coates (Author) · Penguin · Paperback

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Synopsis "We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy "

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual void after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates' Toni Morrison'Searing. One of the foremost essayists on race in the West... [He] is responsible for some of the most important writing about what it is to be black in America today' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good ImmigrantAn essential account of modern America, from Obama to Trump, from black lives matter to white supremacists rising - by the bestselling author of Between the World and MeObama's presidency was a watershed moment in American history. From 2008-2016, the leader of the free world was a black man. In those eight years, Obama transformed the conversation around race, gender, class and wealth - inspiring hope but also attracting criticism and breeding discontent.In this unflinching book, Ta-Nehisi Coates takes stock of Obama's eight years in power, through such iconic, unmissable essays as 'Fear of a Black President' and 'The Case for Reparations'. His account traverses the intersections of the political, the ideological and the cultural, presenting an America in radical flux and yet still in the grip of racial injustice, class warfare and institutional conspiracy. And it reflects on the author's own journey through these eight years, charting the public through the private in passages of startling intimate and piercingly relevant memoir.Ta-Nehisi Coates is one of our most brilliant, most fearless and most essential living writers - and his work is crucial to understanding race in America today.Finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize 2018Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence 2018RAVE READER REVIEWS:'Brilliantly written, incisive, and extremely relevant. Read it with your families, use it in your classrooms, give copies to your friends' (Liz)'Coates thinks more deeply and writes more clearly about the national tragedy and disgrace that is our collective failure to confront the legacy of White Supremacy than just about anyone... I can't recommend it highly enough' (Worddancer Redux)'Every white person who wants to really know how it looks from 'the other side' should take on the responsibility of reading Coates' eye-opening, informative book... A must read for everyone of every colour' (Indy JV)'A masterful understanding of how the USA really works' (shedgirl)'If you want to know the wellsprings of racism in America - then read this book!' (David C. R. Hancock)

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Ta-Nehisi Coates was born in Baltimore in 1975, is a writer, journalist, and American activist, known for his deep analysis of the history and African-American experience in the United States.
Son of William Paul Coates, former member of the Black Panthers and founder of Black Classic Press, and Cheryl Waters, a teacher, Coates grew up in an environment that valued literature and political awareness. He studied at Howard University, although he did not graduate, and began his journalistic career in media such as The Village Voice and Time.

Among his most influential works we find Between the World and Me (2015), written as a letter to his son, where he reflects on black identity and racial violence in the United States. This book won the National Book Award and was a Pulitzer finalist.

In addition to his work as a writer, Coates has been an editor at The Atlantic and has written comics for Marvel, including series of Black Panther and Captain America. He has received numerous awards, such as the MacArthur Fellowship in 2015 and the George Polk Award. Currently, he is a professor at Howard University, where he holds the Sterling Brown chair in the English Department.

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