- Politics and government, Race relations, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch
In these "urgently relevant essays," the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me "reflects on race, Barack Obama's presidency and its jarring aftermath"*--including the election of Donald Trump
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Earnest, grave, contemporary and contemplative.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- Random House Audio Publishing Group, Random House Publishing Group, One World
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780241982501
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- Politics and government
- Race relations
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch
- African American authors
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
- Social conditions
- African Americans
- Political culture
- United states, politics and government, 2009-2017
- Obama, barack, 1961-
- African americans, social conditions
“This story began, as all writing must, in failure.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent for The Atlantic. His book Between The World And Me won the National Book Award in 2015. Ta-Nehisi is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. Since 2016, Coates has written Marvel’s The Black Panther comic book. He lives in New York with his wife and son. Source: http://ta-nehisicoates.com/about/
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