We Were Eight Years in Power: 'One of the foremost essayists on race in the West' Nikesh Shukla, author of The Good Immigrant

Ta-Nehisi Coates' book "Between the World and Me" is a powerful and essential account of modern America, from Obama to Trump, from black lives matter to white supremacists rising. It explores the intersections of politics, ideology, and culture and reflects on the author's own journey through these eight years. Coates is a brilliant, fearless, and essential living writer, and his work is crucial to understanding race in America today.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 384 pages
\n Publication date: 01 November 2018
\n Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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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, and 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 Immigrant, calls him "an essential account of modern America, from Obama to Trump, from black lives matter to white supremacists rising."

Obama's presidency was a watershed moment in American history. From 2008 to 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, ideological, and 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 2018, Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence 2018, RAVE READER REVIEWS: Brilliantly written, incisive, and extremely relevant. Read it with a open mind.

\n Weight: 264g\n
Dimension: 150 x 150 x 24 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780241982495\n \n