How long does it take to read We Were Eight Years in Power?
An American Tragedy
We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates takes about 7 hours 20 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 20 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2017. 400 pages, about 110,000 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 20 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 35 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In these "urgently relevant essays," the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me "reflects on race, Barack Obama's presidency and its jarring aftermath"*--including the election of Donald Trump
Subjects: Politics and government, Race relations, African American authors, Social conditions, African Americans, Political culture
