We Were Eight Years in Power

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]

We Were Eight Years in Power
AuthorTa-Nehisi Coates
SubjectRace in the United States
PublishedOctober 3, 2017 (One World)
Pages416
ISBN978-0-399-59056-6 [1]

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

Essays

  1. 'This Is How We Lost to the White Man'
  2. American Girl
  3. Why Do So Few Blacks Study the Civil War?
  4. The Legacy of Malcolm X
  5. Fear of a Black President
  6. The Case for Reparations
  7. The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration
  8. My President Was Black

References

  1. "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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