![]() ![]() ![]() His publisher warned him that “the road is littered with knockoffs of The Fire Next Time,” but still Coates tried, and the result was “Between the World and Me,” which won the 2015 National Book Award. This work of deep reporting and seething understatement made Coates a literary star, and soon the writer once nervous about profiling Bill Cosby was trying to emulate James Baldwin. Ta-Nehisi Coates is perhaps best-known as a journalist and nonfiction writer: he is the author of the nonfiction books We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy, which examines President. “The Case for Reparations,” published in 2014, was the moment when all the threads Coates had been twisting came together: his attack on respectability politics, his obsession with the enduring legacy of the Civil War and, “finally, the deeply held belief that white supremacy was so foundational to this country that it would not be defeated in my lifetime, my child’s lifetime, or perhaps ever.” More than financial recompense, he wrote, reparations for black Americans would mean “a revolution of the American consciousness, a reconciling of our self-image as the great democratizer with the facts of our history.” We Were Eight Years In Power is a collection of Coates essays written about race, history, and power during the eight years of Obamas presidency. ![]()
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