A Colony in a Nation

By: Chris Hayes

Narrated by: Chris Hayes

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 postracial world, but nearly every empirical measure - wealth, unemployment, incarceration, school segregation - reveals that racial inequality hasn't improved since 1968. With the clarity and originality that distinguished his prescient best seller Twilight 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 Colony - and how it threatens our democracy.

©2017 Chris Hayes (P)2017 Recorded Books

Eye opening to say the least.

If you care about; social justice, history, economics, politics, governance and media this book and his reading of it will captivate you.

Excellent Eye Opener

Chris Hayes is a fantastic journalist and an even better storyteller. Watch him on "All In With Chris Hayes" weekdays at 8pm on MSNBC.

Chris Hayes - A Guy To Be Listened To

Glad I got the Audible.com version. Chris delivers a riveting performance of his book. Totally mind opening.

Contextual genius

Chris Hayes does an amazing job of putting modern politics and events into easy, yet moving, context of skilled storytelling and andecdotal experience. Well worth the credit and 6 hours to listen to.

Yes!

I have a criminal justice degree, went to police academy, and I have worked in jails and prisons for years. The author got absolutely everything right. This is an accurate and important piece that I’ve now passive-aggressively mailed to my “broken windows” era professors. I am impressed with this work, and I would encourage you to listen to it.