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We were eight years in power : an American tragedy

Call Number

  • 973.932 C6528 (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : One World, [2017]

Physical Description

xvii, 367 pages : illustration ; 25 cm

Uniform Title

Essays. Selections

Summary

Award-winning author Ta-Nehisi Coates presents an annotated collection of new and previously published essays on the Obama era, including an interview with the president himself.

Contents

  • "This is how we lost to the white man"
  • American girl
  • Why do so few blacks study the Civil War?
  • The legacy of Malcolm X
  • Fear of a black president
  • The case for reparations
  • The black family in the age of mass incarceration
  • My president was black.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates

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