kate_albers 's review for:

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

5.0

---

A wonderful book. A book that makes you think. A book that makes you frustrated. A book that makes me sad. By looking over the eight years of the Obama administration, Ta-Nehisi Coates sees the changes that brought Donald Trump to power. This should be required reading for everyone because "the most powerful country in the world has hand over all of its affairs - the prosperity of an entire economy, the security of some 300 million citizens, the purity of its water, the viability of its air, the safety of its food, the future of its vast system of education, the soundness of its national highways, airways and railways, the apocalyptic potential of its nuclear arsenal - to a carnival barker who introduced the phrase 'grab 'em by the pussy' into the national lexicon."