blankpagealex 's review for:

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

5.0

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I had read several of these essays when they appeared in The Atlantic, but putting them altogether with commentary from a Ta-Nehisi Coates who exists in the present - the months after Trump was elected to follow the first black president - was enlightening. These essays will inspire, anger, inform, and enrage. I highly recommend them to anyone and hope that Coates' continues his brilliant prose that shines perfect insight to the struggles of being black in a country that all-too-readily shows its racism.