#19 in Biography & memoir
We Were Eight Years in Power
- NYT bestseller · 7 weeks on the list, peaked at #2
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About the book
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy is a 2017 collection of essays by Ta-Nehisi Coates originally published in The Atlantic magazine between 2008 and 2016 over the course of the American Barack Obama administration. It includes the titles that launched his career: "The Case for Reparations" and "The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration". Each of the essays is introduced with the author's reflections.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.8 across 110 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 43% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Biography & memoir average of 8.1. That is how 8.4 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.3 | 7 | 6% |
| Hardcover | 8.8 | 103 | 94% |
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