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

Coates, Ta-Nehisi

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9780241325247: We Were Eight Years in Power: 'One of the foremost essayists on race in the West' Nikesh Shukla, author of The Good Immigrant

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ISBN 10 : 0241325242 ISBN 13 : 9780241325247

Editeur : Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 2017

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Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

In this essential follow-up to Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehist Coates bears witness to the extraordinary eight-year period in American history which began with the unprecedented election of a black president, Barack Obama, and ended, following a vicious backlash, with the election of the man Coates argues is America's "first white president". We Were Eight Years in Power powerfully examines the events of the Obama era from an intimate and revealing perspective : the point of view of a young writer who begins his journey in an unemployment office in Harlem and ends it in the Oval office, interviewing a president. The story of these eight years reaches far beyond presidential politics. It is the story of the new voices, ideas and movements that emerged over this period - and the effects of the persistent, haunting shadow of America's old and unreconciled history of slavery and white supremacy.

Quatri�me de couverture :

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, peerless writer Ta-Nehisi Coates takes stock of the Obama era, speaking authoritatively from political, ideological and cultural perspectives, and draws a sophisticated and penetrating portrait of America today.

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