And as I started looking back at the work, and I started looking back at some of the blogging I had done in that period, I thought there might be something more." I'd done a number of essays for The Atlantic and the thought was these could be packaged together. "Initially I was signed up just to do a kind of best-of collection. But it's also a meditation on where he was in his life when he wrote each piece, and how he and the country changed during the Obama presidency.Ĭoates ( joins Here & Now's Robin Young to talk about the book. Ta-Nehisi Coates' new book " We Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy" is a collection of essays he wrote for The Atlantic. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) This article is more than 5 years old. "We Were Eight Years In Power," by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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