# We Were Eight Years in Power

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- Book: [We Were Eight Years in Power](https://www.bookquiver.com/ta-nehisi-coates/we-were-eight-years-in-power) ([We Were Eight Years in Power.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ta-nehisi-coates/we-were-eight-years-in-power.md))
- Authors: [Ta-Nehisi Coates](https://www.bookquiver.com/ta-nehisi-coates)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: audio
- Length: 13 h 39 min
- Narrated by: Beresford Bennett
- ISBN: 978-02-4198-358-4
- Published: 2017-10-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 13 h 39 min

## Description

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates, read by Beresford Bennett. 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 journalist and thinker Ta-Nehisi Coates takes stock of the Obama era, speaking authoritatively from political, ideological and cultural perspectives, and drawing a sophisticated and penetrating portrait of America today.