ICYMI - Ta-Nehisi Coates Discusses "We Were Eight Years in Power" and Why Obama Was Different
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
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4.2 • 14.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
| 0:02.7 | Ow! |
| 0:04.7 | My guest tonight is a national correspondent for The Atlantic |
| 0:08.4 | and a New York Times bestselling author, |
| 0:10.4 | whose latest book is called, |
| 0:11.8 | We Were Eight Years in Power and American Tragedy. |
| 0:14.8 | Please welcome Tana Hasey Coats. |
| 0:16.6 | CHEERING AND APPLAUSE |
| 0:19.6 | CHEERING AND APPLAUSE |
| 0:28.8 | Welcome back to the show. |
| 0:30.2 | Thanks a lot for the presentation. |
| 0:31.2 | It's good to have you, man. |
| 0:32.2 | This is fun. Before we get into the book, |
| 0:35.4 | there's a story that came out of the book |
| 0:37.8 | that I, like a side of you, that I didn't really know |
| 0:40.0 | about a piece of you that I went back and read on. |
| 0:42.6 | And that was Tana Hasey, the blogger. |
| 0:45.6 | You know, you blogged a lot. |
| 0:47.6 | You speak in the book about how this is where you forged |
| 0:50.2 | your writing, you know, was your dojo in a way. |
| 0:53.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:54.0 | Do you sometimes miss that Tana Hasey, |
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