| International Standard Book Number |
9780593833704
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| International Standard Book Number |
0593833708
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| Personal Name |
Williams, Elliot (Writer on Goetz's trial), author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
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| Title Statement |
Five bullets : the story of Bernie Goetz, New York's explosive '80s, and the subway vigilante trial that divided the nation / Elliot Williams.
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| Imprint |
New York : Penguin Press, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
xxi, 357 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
The Powder Keg -- Claremont Village -- Bu -- The .38 Smith & Wesson Airweight -- Car 7657 -- Shiny Eyes -- The Man in the Blue Windbreaker -- A Polite Note -- The Bug -- Joseph Adams -- Live Free or Die -- Power to the Vigilante -- Three to One -- Gun Fight in Cincinnati -- When Rudy Met Al -- Reasonably Reasonable Reasonableness -- Bingo -- Room 572 -- Two Big Italian Guys -- Ante Up -- Exhibit Y -- The Champion -- Sympathy for the Vigilante -- Inmate No. 78900316 -- Peckerwood -- Saving the Squirrels -- Plus Ça Change.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"From CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams, a revelatory account of how one man, four teenagers, and a struggling city collided over race, vigilantism, and self-defense . . . and exposed the fault lines of a nation. On a dirty New York subway car on December 22, 1984, Bernhard Goetz shot Barry Allen, Darrell Cabey, Troy Canty, and James Ramseur, four teenagers from the Bronx, at point blank range. Goetz claimed they were going to mug him; the teens claim that they were just panhandling. Crime was at an all-time high. So was racial tension. Was Goetz, who was white, a hero who finally fought back? Or a bigot whose itchy trigger finger seriously wounded three unarmed black kids and condemned a fourth to irreversible brain damage? By the time Goetz went on trial for quadruple attempted murder, the saga of the "Subway Vigilante" had become a global sensation, and New Yorkers across race and class were almost equally split over whether he deserved decades in prison or a medal. In Five Bullets, Elliot Williams vaults back to gritty 1980s Manhattan and reexamines the first major true-crime story of the cable news era. Drawing on archives and interviews with many main characters, including Goetz, Williams presents a masterful and vivid tale that illuminates American divides and tells the origin stories of larger-than-life figures: Al Sharpton, a young local activist beginning his path to national stardom; Rudy Giuliani, a rising-star prosecutor with a polarizing decision to make; the NRA, which needed a poster boy as it transitioned from hunting club to political juggernaut; and Rupert Murdoch, whose new purchase, the New York Post, grew his empire by keeping a scary story in the headlines. A shocking account of a pivotal moment in our history, Five Bullets demonstrates why in order to understand debates that continue to this day about race, crime, the media, and safety, it's imperative to reflect on what went down in the subway more than forty years ago. As Williams's powerful narrative reveals, it was not just Goetz on trial, but the conscience of a nation."-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Goetz, Bernhard Hugo, 1947-
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Subways New York (State) New York.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
LAW / General.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Trials (Assault and battery) New York (State) New York.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Self-defense (Law) United States.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Trials (Attempted murder) New York (State) New York.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Assault and battery Law and legislation United States.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Vigilantism United States.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Trial and arbitral proceedings.
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