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"Emmy Award-winning news anchor and New York Times best-selling author Chris Hayes argues that there are really two Americas: a Colony and a Nation. America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a post-racial world, but nearly every empirical measurewealth, unemployment, incarceration, school segregationreveals that racial inequality hasn't improved since 1968. With the clarity and originality that distinguished his prescient bestsellerTwilight of the Elites (""a stunning polemic,"" said Ta-Nehisi Coates), award-winning journalist Chris Hayes offers a powerful new framework in which to understand our current crisis. Hayes contends our country has fractured in two: the Colony and the Nation. In the Nation, we venerate the law. In the Colony, we obsess over order; fear trumps civil rights; and aggressive policing resembles occupation. How and why did Americans build a system where conditions in Ferguson and West Baltimore mirror those that sparked the American Revolution? Blending wide-ranging historical research with political, social, and economic analysis, A Colony in a Nation explains how a Nation founded on justice constructed the Colonyand how it threatens our democracy."

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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 A timely and impassioned argument for social justice. - Kirkus Important, persuasive... [A Colony in a Nation] can help Americans begin to heal. - Publishers Weekly

<i>A Colony in a Nation</i> 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. -<b>Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of <i>Between the World and Me</b></i> A timely and impassioned argument for social justice. - <b><i>Kirkus</b></i> Important, persuasive... [<i>A Colony in a Nation</i>] can help Americans begin to heal. - <b><i>Publishers Weekly</i></b>

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 A timely and impassioned argument for social justice. - Kirkus Important, persuasive... [A Colony in a Nation] can help Americans begin to heal. - Publishers Weekly 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 A timely and impassioned argument for social justice. - Kirkus Important, persuasive [A Colony in a Nation] can help Americans begin to heal. - Publishers Weekly

<i>A Colony in a Nation</i> 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. -<b>Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of <i>Between the World and Me</b></i> A timely and impassioned argument for social justice. - <b><i>Kirkus</b></i> Important, persuasive [<i>A Colony in a Nation</i>] can help Americans begin to heal. - <b><i>Publishers Weekly</i></b>

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 A timely and impassioned argument for social justice. - Kirkus Important, persuasive... [A Colony in a Nation] can help Americans begin to heal. - Publishers Weekly 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 A timely and impassioned argument for social justice. - Kirkus Important, persuasive [A Colony in a Nation] can help Americans begin to heal. - Publishers Weekly

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Chris Hayes is the host of All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC, the author of Twilight of the Elites, and an editor-at-large at The Nation. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, daughter, and son.

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