We Were Eight Years in Power
“He introduces each magazine story with an essay that serves not just as connective tissue, binding one work to the next.”
New York Times
New York Times bestseller
Esquire Magazine Best Book of the Year So Far
Shortlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
A Time Magazine Top 10 Book of the Year in Nonfiction
A USA Today Best Books of the Year selection
A New York Times Notable Book
Finalist for the 2018 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates, read by Beresford Bennett.
From 2008-2016, the leader of the free world was a black man. Obama's presidency reshaped America and transformed the international conversation around politics, race, equality. But it attracted criticism and bred discontent as much as it inspired hope - so much so, that the world now faces an uncertain future under a very different kind of US President.
In this essential new book, peerless journalist and thinker Ta-Nehisi Coates takes stock of the Obama era, speaking authoritatively from political, ideological and cultural perspectives, and drawing a sophisticated and penetrating portrait of America today.
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