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lynecia 's review for:
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Though I read a handful of these when they were published, re-visiting them still leaves me with much to chew on and grapple with. When you are dealing with an intellectual giant like Ta-Nehisi Coates, that grappling is to be expected.
The author chose 1 piece of writing from each year of the Obama administration and accompanied each piece with a new essay, discussing the piece itself, what key events from that year may have shaped its writing and, also some humble self-critique. I appreciated the humility, but I still find Coates' mastery of the longform piece - part reportage, part criticism, part memoir to be just that -- masterful.
I plan on reading through these pieces again, and exploring further many of the sources that aided in a lot of the research and source material.
Personally, I think "The Case For Reparations" may be one of THE BEST longform pieces ever written. If you pick that up, go straight to that one, it won't disappoint.
The author chose 1 piece of writing from each year of the Obama administration and accompanied each piece with a new essay, discussing the piece itself, what key events from that year may have shaped its writing and, also some humble self-critique. I appreciated the humility, but I still find Coates' mastery of the longform piece - part reportage, part criticism, part memoir to be just that -- masterful.
I plan on reading through these pieces again, and exploring further many of the sources that aided in a lot of the research and source material.
Personally, I think "The Case For Reparations" may be one of THE BEST longform pieces ever written. If you pick that up, go straight to that one, it won't disappoint.