‘We Were Eight Years In Power’ is a compilation of eight years of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ pieces from The Atlantic during the Obama Administration, with introductions from a current perspective. He describes a remarkable period of growth and change for him personally and—you would have thought—for the nation. Turns out that President Obama’s extraordinariness got him elected *and* allowed White Americans not to confront our own racism. The result: a President Donald Trump. The last chapters of this book blew my mind. I can’t remember the last time I learned so much; Coates is a young talent who will be a national treasure.