thesauraz 's review for:

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

3.0

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I don’t particularly like compilations like this one, where Coates mixes previous articles in The Atlantic with a new background, sharing his headspace during each and how he grew. The writing is still great, though it doesn’t, for me, pack the same raw, visceral punch as “Between the World and Me.” It was just a really high bar. The other thing this book achieved was contextualizing the Obama administration from a Black man’s vantage point. During the Obama years I was pretty politically apathetic, so it was refreshing to share in a new angle. Overall quite good, just not his best for me.