This is an excellent collection of essays by Ta-Nehisi Coates. In this book, he brings together one essay published in each of the eight years of the Obama administration. He prefaced each of those essays with another in which he provides the context and inspiration for the original essay. All of the original essays are incredibly powerful, and Mr. Coates' thoughts looking back on those years are particularly insightful given our current horror story of a government.
The original eight essays are:
- "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 president was Black
This book is thoughtful and stimulating. I would recommend it to everyone.
Ta-Nehisi Coates. We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy. New York: One World, 2017. 367 pages. ISBN 9780399590566.
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