We Were Eight Years in Power: 'One of the foremost essayists on race in the West' Nikesh Shukla, author of The Good Immigrant

**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates' Toni Morrison** **'Searing. One of the foremost essayists on race in the West... [He] is responsible for some of the most important writing about what it is to be black in America today' Nikesh Shukla, editor of __The Good Immigrant__** Finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize 2018 Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence 2018 **Powerful and necessary, a state-of-the-nation portrait of America under Obama from the prize-winning, bestselling author of __Between the World and Me__** From 2008-2016, the leader of the free world was a black man. Obama's presidency reshaped America and transformed the international conversation around politics, race, equality. But it attracted criticism and bred discontent as much as it inspired hope - so much so, that the world now faces an uncertain future under a very different kind of US President. In this essential new book, Ta-Nehisi Coates takes stock of the Obama era, speaking authoritatively from political, ideological and cultural perspectives, drawing a nuanced and penetrating portrait of America today. **RAVE READER REVIEWS:** **'Brilliantly written, incisive, and extremely relevant**. Read it with your families, use it in your classrooms, give copies to your friends' (Liz) **'Coates thinks more deeply and writes more clearly** about the national tragedy and disgrace that is our collective failure to confront the legacy of White Supremacy than **just about anyone... I can't recommend it highly enough'** (Worddancer Redux) 'Every white person who wants to really know how it looks from 'the other side' should take on the responsibility of reading Coates' eye-opening, informative book... **A must read for everyone of every colour'** (Indy JV) **'A masterful understanding of how the USA really works'** (shedgirl) **'If you want to know the wellsprings of racism in America - then read this book**!' (David C. R. Hancock) In these "urgently relevant essays," the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me "reflects on race, Barack Obama's presidency and its jarring aftermath"*--including the election of Donald Trump