A Colony in a Nation

Chris Hayes

Mar 2017 · W. W. Norton & Company

About this ebook

New York Times Bestseller
New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

"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

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.

Ratings and reviews

A well-researched, well written, informative book. You don't have to agree with everything written in this book, but if you read it with an open mind it will give you plenty of things to think about. A great book on the social justice/injustice that lives in this great nation of ours.

Deep breathing brain 🧠 of 🌎 and love for all breathing brains survival in power 🔋 to help each of us be informed.

Great Book by great journalist!!!

About the author

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.