We Were Eight Years in Power: Essays on the Obama Era
'One of the foremost essayists on race in the West' Nikesh Shukla, author of The Good Immigrant
Ta-Nehisi Coates
ISBN: | 9780241325230 |
Publisher: | Hamish Hamilton |
Published: | 5 October, 2017 |
Format: | Hardcover |
Language: | English |
Links | Penguin AU |
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We Were Eight Years in Power: Essays on the Obama Era
'One of the foremost essayists on race in the West' Nikesh Shukla, author of The Good Immigrant
Ta-Nehisi Coates
I had never seen a black man like Barack Obama. He talked to white people in a new language-as though he actually trusted them and believed in them. It was not my language...White people were enchanted by him-and those who worked in newsrooms seemed most enchanted of all. 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, Ta-Nehisi Coates takes stock of the Obama era, speaking authoritatively from political, ideological and cultural perspectives, drawing a nuanced and penetrating portrait of America today.Powerful and necessary, a state-of-the-nation portrait of America under Obama from the prize-winning, bestselling author of Between the World and Me and The Beautiful Struggle 'I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates' Toni Morrison
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