Tim Miller

Hello and welcome to the Bulwark Podcast.

I'm your host, Tim Miller.

I have an exciting guest for a pre-taped Juneteenth show.

I'm going to the Bayou tomorrow, so we're taping this on Thursday afternoon.

So if Donald Trump, I don't know, decides to invade Cote d'Ivoire or something.

between now and then.

We'll get to that on Monday's show.

In the meantime, he's a contributing editor of Vanity Fair.

He's a Sterling Brown endowed chair in the English department at Howard.

He's an author with a bunch of works, including We Were Eight Years in Power, an American Tragedy about the Obama presidency.

And it's Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Hey, man.

Welcome back.

You wrote a bunch of other books.

You wrote too many books for me to list them all.

Well, I just picked out one because it's relevant today.

As we're taping, the festivities at the opening of the Obama Library are ending.

We've had some speeches from the former president, first lady, and others.

I'm going to play a clip from it in a minute.

I assume you do have Obama legacy takes and you wrote the book.