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.
