We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

Powerful essays, opening my eyes to the depth and pervasiveness of racism in America and how it continues to affect people to this very day. Naive as I am, I had not considered that there were federal-level programs that discriminated against Black people (and other visible minorities, I suppose) that persisted as long as they did (and probably still exist).

As a collection of essays, originally written about a year apart, the book does suffer by being repetitive. A passage that might have served as a reminder of a previous essay becomes a bit annoying when you read it 15 pages after the original.

Also, I found that the introductions, while giving context, were weaker than the actual essays, so I kept wanting to rush through them.

Still, very interesting. Recommended.