17 Top nonfiction books like A Colony in a Nation by Christopher L. Hayes

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A Colony in a Nation

By: Christopher L. Hayes

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award–winning news anchor Chris Hayes argues that there…

"White fear emanates from knowing that white privilege exists and the anxiety that it might end."

-Christopher L. Hayes, A Colony in a Nation

"White fear emanates from knowing that white privilege exists and the anxiety that it might end."

-Christopher L. Hayes, A Colony in a Nation

"Order is a slippery thing: it's in the eyes of the beholder and the judgments of the powerful. Safety is clearer: it's freedom from violence and intrusion."

-Christopher L. Hayes, A Colony in a Nation

"Order is a slippery thing: it's in the eyes of the beholder and the judgments of the powerful. Safety is clearer: it's freedom from violence and intrusion."

-Christopher L. Hayes, A Colony in a Nation

If you liked the nonfiction plot in A Colony in a Nation by Christopher L. Hayes , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of The Daily Show: An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests by Jay Snyder, Oliver Wyman, Lauren Fortgang, Kevin T. Collins, None, Robert Fass, Jon   Stewart, Chris Lutkin

1. The Daily Show: An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests

By: Jay Snyder , Oliver Wyman , Lauren Fortgang , Kevin T. Collins , None , Robert Fass , Jon Stewart , Chris Lutkin

4.13

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The complete, uncensored history of the award-winning The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, as told by i… read more

Similar categories in Jay Snyder's The Daily Show: An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests book and Christopher L. Hayes's A Colony in a Nation

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Zaretta Lynn Hammond

2. Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students

By: Zaretta Lynn Hammond

4.27

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

A bold, brain-based teaching approach to culturally responsive instruction To close the achievement… read more

Similar categories in Zaretta Lynn Hammond's Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students book and Christopher L. Hayes's A Colony in a Nation

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice

3. The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men

By: Eric Lichtblau

4.00

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

The shocking story of how America became one of the world's safest postwar havens for Nazis Thousan… read more

Similar categories in Eric Lichtblau's The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men book and Christopher L. Hayes's A Colony in a Nation

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District by Peter Moskos

4. Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District

By: Peter Moskos

3.75

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When Harvard-trained sociologist Peter Moskos left the classroom to become a cop in Baltimore's Eas… read more

Similar categories in Peter Moskos's Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District book and Christopher L. Hayes's A Colony in a Nation

  • politics
  • crime
  • nonfiction

5. The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made

By: Tom Bissell , Greg Sestero

4.04

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

From the actor who lived through the most improbable Hollywood success story, with an award-winning… read more

Similar categories in Tom Bissell's The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made book and Christopher L. Hayes's A Colony in a Nation

6. When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America

By: Ira Katznelson

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamentally recast… read more

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7. Storm Kings: America's First Tornado Chasers

By: Lee Sandlin

2.75

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Isaac's Storm meets The Age of Wonder in Lee Sandlin's Storm Kings, a riveting tale of the weather'… read more

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8. We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A sweeping collection of new and selected essays on the Obama era by the National Book Award-winnin… read more

Similar categories in Ta-Nehisi Coates's We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy book and Christopher L. Hayes's A Colony in a Nation

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9. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

4.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in… read more

Similar categories in Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3) book and Christopher L. Hayes's A Colony in a Nation

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
"Of a thousand Red Stick and allied insurgents, eight hundred were killed. [Andrew] Jackson lost forty-nine men."

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

"Once elected president, Jackson lost no time in initiating the removal of all Indigenous farmers and the destruction of all their towns in the South."

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

"[Theodore] Roosevelt referred to [Emilio] Aguinaldo as a "renegade Pawnee" and observed that Filipinos did not have the right to govern their country just because they happened to occupy it."

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

"The establishment of the missions and presidios from San Diego and Los Angeles and Santa Barbara to Carmel, San Francisco, and Sonoma, traces the colonization of California's Indigenous nations. The …"

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

Cover of Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow

10. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

By: Rachel Maddow

4.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more

Similar categories in Rachel Maddow's Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism book and Christopher L. Hayes's A Colony in a Nation

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."

-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

Cover of Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America by Cody Keenan

11. Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America

By: Cody Keenan

4.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “At a time when the meaning of America is up for grabs, Cody Keenan’s n… read more

Similar categories in Cody Keenan's Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America book and Christopher L. Hayes's A Colony in a Nation

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland by Troy Senik

12. A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland

By: Troy Senik

4.16

Format: 384 pages, ebook

“A thoroughly engaging and enjoyable” (National Review) biography of Grover Cleveland—the honest, p… read more

Similar categories in Troy Senik's A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland book and Christopher L. Hayes's A Colony in a Nation

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America by Joy-Ann Reid

13. Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America

By: Joy-Ann Reid

4.57

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The host of MSNBC’s  The ReidOut  and  New York Times  bestselling author of  The Man Who Sold Amer… read more

Similar categories in Joy-Ann Reid's Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America book and Christopher L. Hayes's A Colony in a Nation

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of The Big Break: The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind by Ben Terris

14. The Big Break: The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind

By: Ben Terris

3.74

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

"No one gets today's Washington like Ben Terris…THE BIG BREAK is the definitive accounting of ‘how … read more

Similar categories in Ben Terris's The Big Break: The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind book and Christopher L. Hayes's A Colony in a Nation

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Colony in a Nation by Christopher L. Hayes

15. A Colony in a Nation

By: Christopher L. Hayes

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award–winning news anchor Chris Hayes argues that there… read more

Similar categories in Christopher L. Hayes's A Colony in a Nation book and Christopher L. Hayes's A Colony in a Nation

  • social science
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • society
  • crime
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"White fear emanates from knowing that white privilege exists and the anxiety that it might end."

-Christopher L. Hayes, A Colony in a Nation

"Order is a slippery thing: it's in the eyes of the beholder and the judgments of the powerful. Safety is clearer: it's freedom from violence and intrusion."

-Christopher L. Hayes, A Colony in a Nation

"Part of the genius of the rhetoric of law and order is that as a principle (rather than a practice), it can be sold as the ultimate call for equality: We all deserve the law. We all deserve order. Al…"

-Christopher L. Hayes, A Colony in a Nation

"In the Nation, there is law; in the Colony, there is only a concern with order. In the Nation, you have rights; in the Colony, you have commands. In the Nation, you are innocent until proven guilty; …"

-Christopher L. Hayes, A Colony in a Nation

Cover of White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy by Thomas F. Schaller

16. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

By: Thomas F. Schaller

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more

Similar categories in Thomas F. Schaller's White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy book and Christopher L. Hayes's A Colony in a Nation

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Call Me American: A Memoir by Abdi Nor Iftin

17. Call Me American: A Memoir

By: Abdi Nor Iftin

4.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The incredible true story of a boy living in war-torn Somalia who escapes to America--first by way … read more

Similar categories in Abdi Nor Iftin's Call Me American: A Memoir book and Christopher L. Hayes's A Colony in a Nation

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America by Barbara McQuade

18. Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America

By: Barbara McQuade

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An urgent, comprehensive explanation of the ways disinformation is impacting democracy, and practic… read more

Similar categories in Barbara McQuade's Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America book and Christopher L. Hayes's A Colony in a Nation

  • social science
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Hate Speech (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) by Caitlin Ring Carlson

19. Hate Speech (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)

By: Caitlin Ring Carlson

3.50

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

An investigation of hate legal approaches, current controversies, and suggestions for limiting its… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Ring Carlson's Hate Speech (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) book and Christopher L. Hayes's A Colony in a Nation

  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain by Peter S. Goodman

20. How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain

By: Peter S. Goodman

4.25

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Part Michael Lewis, part The Way Things Work: From the New York Times’s Global Economics Correspond… read more

Similar categories in Peter S. Goodman's How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain book and Christopher L. Hayes's A Colony in a Nation

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story by Joy-Ann Reid

21. The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story

By: Joy-Ann Reid

4.05

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER MSNBC'S Joy-Ann Reid calculates the true price of the Trump presiden… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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