WE WERE EIGHT YEARS IN POWER

National Book Award winner Ta-Nehisi Coates’ long-awaited powerful portrait of the historic Barack Obama era.

WE WERE EIGHT YEARS IN POWER features Ta-Nehisi Coates’ iconic essays first published in The Atlantic, including “Fear of a Black President,” “The Case for Reparations, (which Hanser Berlin already included in their edition of BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME” and “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration,” along with eight fresh essays that revisit each year of the Obama administration through Coates’ own experiences, observations, and intellectual development, capped by a bracingly original assessment of the election that fully illuminated the tragedy of the Obama era.

WE WERE EIGHT YEARS IN POWER is a vital account of modern America from one of the definitive voices of this historic moment.