We Were Eight Years in Power

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.^[1]

We Were Eight Years in Power

Author	Ta-Nehisi Coates
Subject	Race in the United States
Publisher	One World
Publication date	October 3, 2017
Pages	416
ISBN	978-0-399-59056-6 [1]

Time magazine listed We Were Eight Years in Power as one of its top ten non-fiction books of 2017.^[2]

Essays

1. "'This Is How We Lost to the White Man'"^[3]
2. "American Girl"^[4]
3. "Why Do So Few Blacks Study the Civil War?"^[5]
4. "The Legacy of Malcolm X"^[6]
5. "Fear of a Black President"^[7]
6. "The Case for Reparations"^[8]
7. "The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration"^[9]
8. "My President Was Black"^[10]