{"product_id":"fear-and-fury-isbn-9780593702093","title":"Fear and Fury","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • In this masterful, groundbreaking work, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Heather Ann Thompson shines surprising new light on an infamous 1984 New York subway shooting that would unveil simmering racial resentments and would lead, in unexpected ways, to a fractured future and a new era of rage and violence.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"A gripping and powerful account of one of the 20th century's most important criminal cases.\" --James Foreman Jr., Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eLocking Up Our Own\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn December 22, 1984, in a graffiti-covered New York City subway car, passengers looked on in horror as a white loner named Bernhard Goetz shot four Black teens,  Darrell Cabey, Barry Allen, Troy Canty, and James Ramseur, at point-blank range. He then disappeared into a dark tunnel. After an intense manhunt, and his eventual surrender in New Hampshire, the man the tabloid media had dubbed the “Death Wish Vigilante” would become a celebrity and a hero to countless ordinary Americans who had been frustrated with the economic fallout of the Reagan 80s. Overnight, Goetz’s young victims would become villains.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOut of this dramatic moment would emerge an angry nation, in which Rupert Murdoch's New York Post and later Fox News Network stoked the fear and the fury of a stunning number of Americans. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing from never-before-seen archival materials, legal files, and more, Heather Ann Thompson narrates the Bernie Goetz Subway shootings and their decades-long reverberations, while deftly recovering the lives of the boys whom too many decided didn't matter. \u003ci\u003eFear and Fury\u003c\/i\u003e is the remarkable account and a searing indictment of a crucial turning point in American history.\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Most Anticipated Book from \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine, \u003ci\u003eVulture\u003c\/i\u003e, Barnes \u0026amp; Noble, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMs. Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e, KMUW, \u003ci\u003eThe Stacks\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Sydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eReality Blurred\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A timely, brilliantly documented re-examination of the 1980s and the lingering hostility to the Civil Rights movement. \u003ci\u003eFear and Fury\u003c\/i\u003e thoughtfully explores the demands of racial equality and carefully details America's often-violent resistance to racial justice.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Bryan Stevenson, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eJust Mercy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is like a secret decoder ring for all those trying to understand the politics of white rage today. In\u003ci\u003e Fear and Fury\u003c\/i\u003e, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Heather Ann Thompson delivers a breathtaking and unflinching account of how the Reagan era—and one violent encounter on a New York subway—reignited a national politics of white fear. Moving from the South Bronx to the corridors of power, Thompson exposes how racial anxiety, economic abandonment, and media hysteria fused to justify oppression and criminalize the most vulnerable. This history reminds us that only by reckoning with the roots of fear and fury can we ever hope to build a democracy that truly honors the dignity and humanity of us all.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Michelle Alexander, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of\u003ci\u003e The New Jim Crow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Thompson] writes expansively about the Goetz case as both a reflection of a city torn apart by neoliberal neglect and a harbinger of what she calls 'the rebirth of white rage'. . . . Vibrant, powerful and moving.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jennifer Szalai, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Thompson] vividly revisit[s] the 1984 subway shooting that gripped the country. . . . [and] effectively link[s] the shooting to more recent incidents involving a deadly cocktail of racial stereotypes, the overzealous use of force—if not outright vigilantism—countenanced in the name of self-defense and broadening gun rights.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Embraced by the media after he shot four Black teenagers on the New York City subway, Bernie Goetz was the vigilante poster boy of the 1980s, a folk hero to millions. . . . Heather Ann Thompson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eBlood in the Water, \u003c\/i\u003espins this narrative on its head, centering Goetz’s victims while illuminating the rise of tabloid journalism and early stirrings of disinformation culture.”\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Written with heart and precision, \u003ci\u003eFear and Fury\u003c\/i\u003e captures New York at its breaking point and traces how a city’s panic became a nation’s policy. It’s an extraordinary act of witness and understanding, alive on every page with urgency and truth.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Gilbert King, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eDevil in the Grove\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Heather Ann Thompson’s \u003ci\u003eFear and Fury\u003c\/i\u003e provides . . . [a] detailed reconstruction [of the Goetz shootings]—very much in the vein of her excellent, indignant history of the Attica prison uprising. . . . She treats the Goetz episode as the first whitecap on the surge of racial rage that rose with the Reagan era and has carried into our own.”\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Powerful. . . . [Thompson] has painted a sharply accurate contextual picture of 1980s America and shown readers how to see that decade as the seed bed for our current national difficulties.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Riveting . . . [Thompson] examines the Goetz case with a keen eye on today, drawing direct and haunting connections between the 'white rage' that revealed itself after the 1984 shootings and the abhorrent increase in violence against people of Color today.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eHarper's Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Thompson's new book] explores fear, how it has become one of the most powerful forces in American life, powerful enough to excuse violence, shape policy and decide whose lives matter. . . . [She] argues the [Goetz] case marked a political turning point when white racial fear was sanctioned by law and leveraged by elites who learned how useful fear could be.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—NPR\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Required reading.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eMs. Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Thompson's deeply researched account [of the Bernie Goetz case] becomes a through line to the present: the event that, against a backdrop of growing inequality and racial resentment in the early 1980s, first gave legal cover to white vigilantism, creating a template increasingly embraced on the right today.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Heather Ann Thompson’s \u003ci\u003eFear and Fury\u003c\/i\u003e brings to life Bernhard Goetz’s shooting of four Black teenagers on a New York subway in 1984, a moment that exposed the ugly reality of America’s racial divide. With vivid prose and meticulous research, Thompson shows that we have yet to truly overcome the malign effects of racial animus.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of\u003ci\u003e The Hemingses of Monticello \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eOn Juneteenth\u003c\/i\u003e, and Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A magnum opus that balances sensitive storytelling and fully realized characters with illuminating history—required reading for anyone interested in understanding the centrality of violence in American society.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Kathleen Belew, author of \u003ci\u003eBring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Heather Ann Thompson has once again produced a defining work of American history with \u003ci\u003eFear and Fury\u003c\/i\u003e. She provides not only a sweeping and indispensable account of Bernhard Goetz’s horrific actions but also excavates the larger backdrop of cultural and political forces that weaponized white rage during the 1980s and beyond. Readers will be moved by the care and dignity Thompson brings to the stories of Barry Allen, Darrell Cabey, Troy Canty, and James Ramseur—the four Black teenagers whose lives were forever changed during that fateful subway ride—forcing a reckoning with the human cost of vigilante violence. \u003ci\u003eFear and Fury\u003c\/i\u003e is a monumental achievement that exposes the roots of the nation’s current crisis and serves as an urgent message to resist the manufactured fear that threatens the resilience of democracy itself.” \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e—Elizabeth Hinton, author of \u003ci\u003eAmerica on Fire\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A gripping and powerful account of one of the 20th century’s most important criminal cases.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eJames Forman Jr., Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eLocking Up Our Own\u003c\/i\u003e and J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law at Yale Law School\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Heather Ann Thompson revisits the [Goetz] case. . . . A granular examination of the shooting, the trial, and the civil case brought by Cabey, this work also explains the incident’s enduring impact on American society. Thompson traces a path from then to now, a period when right-wing news outlets peddle a constant narrative that New York is again a lawless city on the brink of destruction. . . . A worthwhile read.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eIrish Examiner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A comprehensive account of a vicious outburst that shook New York four decades ago. . . . [Thompson] elucidates how the incident still has a malign influence. . . . and excels when exploring the broader trends that led to the shooting and the 'throughline' connecting Goetz to 'the America of President Donald Trump'. . . . [Thompson’s] skill for historical dot-connecting makes this a worthy, informative book.”\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Thompson names Ronald Reagan’s cuts to the social safety net as the original sin of the 1980s. She charts the rise of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, which capitalized on racial resentments and economic anxieties of fear­ful, angry white New Yorkers who were disenchanted with liberal solutions to social prob­lems. . . . But the heart of \u003ci\u003eFear and Fury\u003c\/i\u003e is twin courtroom dramas: the criminal trial of Goetz for the shootings and a civil trial seek­ing financial damages for one of his victims. . . . In Thompson’s capable hands, the Goetz saga, and its relation­ship to the present day, gets the messy resolution it deserves.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—BookPage, starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Insightful. . . . A searing critique of white America's racial resentments.\" \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"A true story of injustice—in which Goetz got off unscathed while the teens paid for the rest of their lives—against a background of economic inequality accelerated by Republican economic and social policies, racial animosity and vigilante adulation fanned by Murdoch’s divisive media empire, and the NRA’s burgeoning political muscle. . . . Insightful. . . . Convincing.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Booklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eHEATHER ANN THOMPSON\u003c\/b\u003e is a historian and the Pulitzer Prize and Bancroft Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eBlood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e. Thompson is also the author of \u003ci\u003eWhose Detroit?: Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City\u003c\/i\u003e. She writes regularly on the criminal justice system for myriad publications, including \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. Thompson’s policy work includes serving on a National Academy of Sciences blue-ribbon panel that studied the causes and consequences of mass incarceration in the US. She also co-runs the Carceral State Research Project at the University of Michigan.","brand":"Pantheon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233165619429,"sku":"NP9780593702093","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593702093.jpg?v=1767726782","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/fear-and-fury-isbn-9780593702093","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}