We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy is a 2017 collection of essays by Ta-Nehisi Coates originally published in The Atlantic magazine between 2008 and 2016 over the course of the American Barack Obama administration.

It includes the titles that launched his career: "The Case for Reparations" and "The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration".

[1] Time magazine listed We Were Eight Years in Power as one of its top ten non-fiction books of 2017.

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