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Coates, Ta-Nehisi : We Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy

One World Publishing, New York City, NY, 2017

ISBN 0399590560

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 375 pages. Retrospective collection of essays. One of the most important books of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. "Autographed Copy" round white sticker pasted in front. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Ta-Nehisi Coates' "We Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy". His sequel-of-sorts to "Between The World And Me" (2015). Confirms Ta-Nehisi Coates' stature as the most important American public intellectual of our time, black or white. "The First White President" is the best essay on its subject ever written thus far, clarifying in a dispassionate, fact-based, and intricately argued manner, why Donald Trump won. Yes, of course, this question will be litigated and re-litigated for the next fifty years if not the rest of the 21st century. Still, Coates' dazzling synthesis will remain indispensable. In sum: It was NOT Hillary Clinton who ran a "politically correct", "identity politics" campaign. It was Trump, and he won because it united a narrow but decisive white majority - including, devastatingly, white women - who felt threatened by the rise of their fellow Americans as a political force: African-Americans, Hispanics, and the LGBTQ community, all of whom did vote for HRC in overwhelming numbers. Coates persuasively argues that Trump did not win because he appealed to the economic anxieties of the "forgotten" working class unless by the latter, one means the white working class. In which case, he prevailed because he, a New York City billionaire, cynically exploited their cultural-identity anxieties, not economic ones. The fact is that Clinton won, again in overwhelming numbers, the non-white working class, blacks, Hispanics, and Asians, who are all less affluent than the "anxious" white working-class voter. Coates remembers the Obama Years with an Essay assessing each of his eight years in power, building up to then tragically ending (hence the book's title) with Trump's victory, a massive Obama backlash (for Trump, this was deeply personal) that turned Clinton (who fully embraced Obama) into collateral damage. Make America Great (White) Again, the racist platform through which Trump ran, won, and now governs, will persist through both a fully-articulated ideology as well as deeply ingrained prejudice. No one has unpacked both with the same penetrating insight as Coates has. An absolute "must-have" title for Ta-Nehisi Coates collectors. This Autographed Copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the title page by Ta-Nehisi Coates. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER TA-NEHISI COATES TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0399590560.

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