balletbookworm 's review for:

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates

5.0

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Even if you read Coates’s pieces as they came out in The Atlantic they are worth reading again as one cohesive piece with Coates’s own introductions about what was going on in his life at the time, things he could have done better, or what a few more years of reflection brought. A smart collection from a smart dude.

“My President was Black” made me cry. Again. Ugly cry again.