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 reactions. Time magazine listed We Were Eight Years in Power as one of its top ten non-fiction books of 2017. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Purchase here.
Book selection by Rahim Shabazz.
Book selection originally published in the 2023 EG Gazette winter edition.
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