We Were Eight Years in Power
'One of the foremost essayists on race in the West' Nikesh Shukla, author of The Good Immigrant
$25.14
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2018
Summary
From Obama to Trump, from Black Lives Matter to the rise of the alt-right - THE definitive state-of-the-nation analysis of modern America.
From 2008-2016, the leader of the free world was a black man. Obama’s presidency was a watershed moment in American history. In those eight years, the political conversation around race, gender, class and wealth shifted drastically - inspiring hope but also attracting criticism and breeding discontent. That discontent ultimately led to a shocking b…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241982495 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241982499 |
| Author: | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2018 |
| Weight: | 268g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 25mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
I’ve been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates
I’ve been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates
America’s latest literary wunderkind… A prodigious talent * The Sunday Times *
We are witnessing greatness. The man and his writing will be studied and revered for generations * Minneapolis Star Tribune *
[Coates is] the pre-eminent black public intellectual of his generation * The New York Times *
We Were Eight Years in Power is an essential text to understand America today * W Magazine *
Ta-Nehisi Coates is probably the only magazine writer in the world whose articles are heralded with the same fervor as the release of the latest Beyonce album * Financial Times *
A wake up call… More compelling than almost any other public voice about the state we’re in. He eloquently conflates the personal, political and existential, while telling it like it is * Observer *
Coates eloquently unfurls blunt truths… To have such a voice, in such a moment, is a ray of light * USA Today *
Coates succeeds twice over, in justifying not only his account of one election, but the importance of his entire body of work * New Statesman *
Brilliant and troubling… Required reading * Vogue *
About The Author
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, The Water Dancer, and Between the World and Me, which won the National Book Award in 2015. He is the recipient of a National Magazine Award and a MacArthur Fellowship. He is currently the Sterling Brown endowed chair at Howard University in the English department.
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