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    "annotation": "<p><span>America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a post-racial world, but nearly every empirical measure&mdash;wealth, unemployment, incarceration, school segregation&mdash;reveals that racial inequality hasn&rsquo;t improved since 1968. With the clarity and originality that distinguished his prescient bestseller&nbsp;</span><em>Twilight of the Elites</em><span>&nbsp;(&ldquo;a stunning polemic,&rdquo; said Ta-Nehisi Coates), award-winning journalist Chris Hayes offers a powerful new framework in which to understand our current crisis.</span><br /><span>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?</span><br /><span>Blending wide-ranging historical research with political, social, and economic analysis,&nbsp;</span><em>A Colony in a Nation</em><span>&nbsp;explains how a Nation founded on justice constructed the Colony&mdash;and how it threatens our democracy.</span></p>",
    "description": "<p><span>America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a post-racial world, but nearly every empirical measure&mdash;wealth, unemployment, incarceration, school segregation&mdash;reveals that racial inequality hasn&rsquo;t improved since 1968. With the clarity and originality that distinguished his prescient bestseller&nbsp;</span><em>Twilight of the Elites</em><span>&nbsp;(&ldquo;a stunning polemic,&rdquo; said Ta-Nehisi Coates), award-winning journalist Chris Hayes offers a powerful new framework in which to understand our current crisis.</span><br /><span>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?</span><br /><span>Blending wide-ranging historical research with political, social, and economic analysis,&nbsp;</span><em>A Colony in a Nation</em><span>&nbsp;explains how a Nation founded on justice constructed the Colony&mdash;and how it threatens our democracy.</span></p>",
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