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| Author | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
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| Subject | Race in the United States |
| Publisher | One World |
Publication date | October 3, 2017 |
| Pages | 416 |
| ISBN | 978-0-399-59056-6 [1] |
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy is a 2017 collection of essays by Ta-Nehisi Coates originally published in 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]
- ^ a b "Rev. of We Were Eight Years in Power". Publishers Weekly. August 14, 2017. Retrieved October 2, 2017.
- ^ Howorth, Claire (November 21, 2017). "The Top 10 Non-Fiction Books of 2017". Time. Retrieved December 13, 2017.