Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates
publisher name: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780241982495
I had never seen a black man like Barack Obama. He talked to white people in a new language—as though he actually trusted them and believed in them. It was not my language... White people were enchanted by him—and those who worked in newsrooms seemed most enchanted of all.
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, Ta-Nehisi Coates takes stock of the Obama era, speaking authoritatively from political, ideological, and cultural perspectives, drawing a nuanced and penetrating portrait of America today.
Powerful and necessary, a state-of-the-nation portrait of America under Obama from the prize-winning, bestselling author of Between the World and Me and The Beautiful Struggle.
