![]() The result is a particularly satisfying account of the education of a young man as he learned his country's history and became, however reluctantly, a black public intellectual.Īlthough he attended Howard University, a historically African American institution, he never completed his degree and there is something of the autodidact to his writing. To Coates' credit he has done more than exploit his fame and only reprint the pieces – he offers commentary on each of his essays, commentary that is part memoir and part critique of the original pieces. We Were Eight Years in Power collects eight of his Atlantic essays, one from each year of the Obama administration, covering subjects such as Bill Cosby, the legacy of Malcom X, the black family in the age of incarceration, and the Obamas. ![]() ![]() We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates. ![]()
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