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In A Colony in a Nation, New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award–winning news anchor Chris Hayes upends the national conversation on policing and democracy. Drawing on wide-ranging historical, social, and political analysis, as well as deeply personal experiences with law enforcement, Hayes contends that our country has fractured in two: the Colony and the Nation. In the Nation, the law is venerated. In the Colony, fear and order undermine civil rights. With great empathy, Hayes seeks to understand this systemic divide, examining its ties to racial inequality, the omnipresent threat of guns, and the dangerous and unfortunate results of choices made by fear.

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An up-to-date (and masterfully interwoven) blend of statistics, history, and analysis. -- Peter C. Baker - Pacific Standard Chris Hayes' ominous account of what's ailing America... [offers a] rare view into a wide racial and class cross-section of society. -- Ryan Cooper - The Week Important, persuasive....[A Colony in a Nation] can help Americans begin to heal. -- Publishers Weekly This readable and thoughtful work will appeal to readers interested in civil rights and criminal justice, and is especially insightful. -- William D. Pederson - Library Journal A timely and impassioned argument for social justice. -- Kirkus Reviews Terrific and really important. -- Rebecca Traister A Colony in a Nation is a highly original analysis of America's arbitrary and erratic criminal justice system. Indeed, by Hayes's lights, the system is not erratic at all-it treats one group of Americans as citizens, and another as the colonized. This is an essential and groundbreaking text in the effort to understand how American criminal justice went so badly awry. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and Me [P]erhaps the first significant theorization on race of the Trump era. -- Matthew Pulver - Salon [Hayes is] the young left's most erudite and urgent interpreter. -- Rachel Maddow Hayes's forceful analysis...compel[s] readers to wrestle with some very tough questions about the nature of American democracy. -- Khalil Gibran Muhammad - New York Times Book Review

Important, persuasive... [A Colony in a Nation] can help Americans begin to heal. -- Publishers Weekly A timely and impassioned argument for social justice. -- Kirkus Writing with clarity, intelligence, and compassion, Hayes deftly illuminates the complex state of affairs that has evolved since the 1960s civil rights protests, and resulted in the current backlash. -- Carol Haggas - Booklist This readable and thoughtful work...is especially insightful. -- William D. Pederson - Library Journal (starred review) Chris Hayes' ominous account of what's ailing America... [offers a] rare view into a wide racial and class cross-section of society. -- Ryan Cooper - The Week An up-to-date (and masterfully interwoven) blend of statistics, history, and analysis. -- Peter C. Baker - Pacific Standard A major book, vital for our survival as a nation. -- Charles R. Larson - Counterpunch Hayes is a forceful and eloquent writer...He offers a clear and useful framework for understanding the current dysfunctions of American society. It's a brilliant diagnosis, [and] more urgent than ever. -- Nick Romeo - Christian Science Monitor The first significant theorization on race of the Trump era...Hayes has a particular talent for examining rather unflinchingly our national ills. -- Matthew Pulver - Salon Hayes doesn't shy away from exposing bias where he finds it, which makes this passionate and well-researched account a compelling entry in the growing literature of social injustice. -- Geoff McKenzie - O Magazine A thorough exploration of how the `tough on crime' ideology leaves poor isolated minority populations living under a different set of laws. -- Patrick Sauer - Esquire A Colony in a Nation is a highly original analysis of America's arbitrary and erratic criminal justice system. Indeed, by Hayes's lights, the system is not erratic at all-it treats one group of Americans as citizens, and another as the colonized. This is an essential and ground-breaking text in the effort to understand how American criminal justice went so badly awry. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and Me Terrific and really important. -- Rebecca Traister A Colony in a Nation reminds us that fear of the other, when weaponized and mechanized by the state, usually makes things worse. That's a lesson Americans of every color would do well to remember. -- Eric Liu - Washington Post Hayes's forceful analysis...compel[s] readers to wrestle with some very tough questions about the nature of American democracy and its deep roots in racism, inequality and punishment. -- Khalil Gibran Muhammad - New York Times Book Review

Terrific and really important.--Rebecca Traister An up-to-date (and masterfully interwoven) blend of statistics, history, and analysis.--Peter C. Baker Chris Hayes' ominous account of what's ailing America... [offers a] rare view into a wide racial and class cross-section of society.--Ryan Cooper A timely and impassioned argument for social justice. [Hayes is] the young left's most erudite and urgent interpreter. [P]erhaps the first significant theorization on race of the Trump era.--Matthew Pulver This readable and thoughtful work will appeal to readers interested in civil rights and criminal justice, and is especially insightful.--William D. Pederson Hayes's forceful analysis...compel[s] readers to wrestle with some very tough questions about the nature of American democracy.--Khalil Gibran Muhammad A Colony in a Nation is a highly original analysis of America's arbitrary and erratic criminal justice system. Indeed, by Hayes's lights, the system is not erratic at all--it treats one group of Americans as citizens, and another as the colonized. This is an essential and groundbreaking text in the effort to understand how American criminal justice went so badly awry.--Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and Me

Important, persuasive... [A Colony in a Nation] can help Americans begin to heal. -- Publishers Weekly A timely and impassioned argument for social justice. -- Kirkus Writing with clarity, intelligence, and compassion, Hayes deftly illuminates the complex state of affairs that has evolved since the 1960s civil rights protests, and resulted in the current backlash. -- Carol Haggas - Booklist This readable and thoughtful work... is especially insightful. -- William D. Pederson - Library Journal (starred review) Chris Hayes' ominous account of what's ailing America... [offers a] rare view into a wide racial and class cross-section of society. -- Ryan Cooper - The Week An up-to-date (and masterfully interwoven) blend of statistics, history, and analysis. -- Peter C. Baker - Pacific Standard A major book, vital for our survival as a nation. -- Charles R. Larson - Counterpunch Hayes is a forceful and eloquent writer.... He offers a clear and useful framework for understanding the current dysfunctions of American society. It's a brilliant diagnosis, [and] more urgent than ever. -- Nick Romeo - Christian Science Monitor The first significant theorization on race of the Trump era.... Hayes has a particular talent for examining rather unflinchingly our national ills. -- Matthew Pulver - Salon Hayes doesn't shy away from exposing bias where he finds it, which makes this passionate and well-researched account a compelling entry in the growing literature of social injustice. -- Geoff McKenzie - O Magazine A thorough exploration of how the `tough on crime' ideology leaves poor isolated minority populations living under a different set of laws. -- Patrick Sauer - Esquire A Colony in a Nation is a highly original analysis of America's arbitrary and erratic criminal justice system. Indeed, by Hayes's lights, the system is not erratic at all-it treats one group of Americans as citizens, and another as the colonized. This is an essential and ground-breaking text in the effort to understand how American criminal justice went so badly awry. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and Me Terrific and really important. -- Rebecca Traister A Colony in a Nation reminds us that fear of the other, when weaponized and mechanized by the state, usually makes things worse. That's a lesson Americans of every color would do well to remember. -- Eric Liu - Washington Post Hayes's forceful analysis...compel[s] readers to wrestle with some very tough questions about the nature of American democracy and its deep roots in racism, inequality and punishment. -- Khalil Gibran Muhammad - New York Times Book Review

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Chris Hayes is the Emmy Award–winning host of All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC, the New York Times best-selling author of Twilight of the Elites, and an editor-at-large at The Nation. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and children.

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