Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Details About Books We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
| Title | : | We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy |
| Author | : | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 371 pages |
| Published | : | October 3rd 2017 by One World Publications |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Politics. Writing. Essays. History. Race. Audiobook |
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An annotated collection of new and previously published essays on the Obama era by the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me, including an interview with the President himselfDeclare Books Toward We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
| Original Title: | We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy ASIN B01MT734OD |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Current Interest (2017), Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction (2018), NAIBA Book of the Year for Nonfiction (2018), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Nonfiction (2018), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2017) NAACP Image Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2018), PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Nominee for Shortlist (2018) |
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Ta-Nehisi Coates was unemployed and struggling before Obama's presidency was announced. With a black person running for president, and becoming president though there was a shift in the opportunities available for a writer who was addressing race. Ta-Nehisi Coates puts together eight essays he wrote through out the years of Obama's presidency and reflects on them in terms of his own head space at the time he wrote them and his growth as a writer. He tries to explain to us what he was trying toAn excellent collection of essays written by Coates during the eight years of Barack Obama's administration. Where is the 'American tragedy' you may ask? In what follows those eight years. In the shattering of 'the dream of a post-racial America.'"...writing is always some form of interpretation, some form of translating the specificity of one's roots or expertise or even one's own mind into language that can be absorbed and assimilated into the consciousness of a broader audience." In these
In this collection of texts, Coates reminisces about his personal experiences during every year of the Obama administration, and each of these personal vignettes is followed by one of his influential essays that have first appeared in The Atlantic between 2008 and 2016:* This Is How We Lost to the White Man* American Girl* Why Do So Few Blacks Study the Civil War?* The Legacy of Malcolm X* Fear of a Black President* The Case for Reparations* The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration* My
Audiobook narrated by Beresford Bennett 13h 39m I have so much to say, but find it difficult to articulate all my thoughts and feelings. Although I think I prefer my "Between the World and Me" audio because it is narrated by the author, this is definitely a great audio that I would recommend. As many of my fellow reviewers have already stated, this is a collection of eight essays written by Coates during the Obama presidency. I only discovered the author in 2017 and I truly enjoy his
I think commentary on a nonfiction book of this style is somewhat hard to do, so here are a few, brief thoughts. Each of these essays stands alone as fascinating and relevant reads. I have read The Case for Reparations before and it still resonates well. Elements of the book as a whole, especially examples used to back articles (the same statistics will be cited, and the same personal anecdotes), feel a bit repetitivefactor of the compilation. I think this is fine. There is still original
I cycled through rage and anguish while reading this. It is a thorough retrospective on the (all too brief) moment of Obama's presidency, how it fits into the writer's life and how it fits into America's history.
This book is a collection of eight essays by Ta-Nehisi Coates previously published in The Atlantic, one from each year of the Obama administration. Each essay is accompanied with an opening commentary that describes the circumstances, political environment and state of mind in which the essay was written including the authors personal and professional situation at the time. In a real sense this book is a recapitulation of some political issues taken from the past eight years and examined from an
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