To a great extent, Coates's career was accelerated when he joined the Atlantic. They actively promoted his work and let him work for two years on "The Case For

To a great extent, Coates's career was accelerated when he joined the Atlantic. They actively promoted his work and let him work for two years on "The Case For Reparations". This is not to say that he wouldn't have written popular books eventually anyway. I just think it had less to do with outside cultural developments. Ihe Atlantic may have helped drive those developments, in fact.