Hayes, Christopher

America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measure?wealth, unemployment, incarceration, school segregation?reveals that racial inequality has barely improved since 1968, when Richard Nixon became our first ?law and order? president. With the clarity and originality that distinguished his prescient bestseller, Twilight of the Elites, Chris Hayes upends our national conversation on policing and democracy in a book of wide-ranging historical, social, and political analysis.

Details the events that have led to the disruption of relations between ordinary citizens and the social elite, including such organizations as Congress, Wall Street, and professional sports. Reveals how this crisis of authority threatens to upend American culture and politics and considers where this turn of events may lead.