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riannam 's review for:
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Coates is undoubtedly a beautiful and strong writer, but after reading this, I think Between the World and Me was a peak that none of the essays in this book come close to. The book is a collection of eight essays written throughout the Obama presidency, which leads to a few thoughts: (a) the essays are extremely repetitive, (b) if you’ve read other analysis of these years, or Between the World and Me, or more recent books on race and politics, you probably won’t get much more out of this, and (c) in the same vein, a lot of the insights on Trump/white America/Obama are outdated in that we have newer and more analysis. I think I would have enjoyed these essays much more had I read them contemporaneously and standalone; now, I was just trying to get through the book.