| International Standard Book Number |
9780593702116
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780593702093
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| International Standard Book Number |
0593702093
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
345.747 THO
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| Personal Name |
Thompson, Heather Ann, 1963- author.
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| Title Statement |
Fear and fury : the Reagan eighties, the Bernie Goetz shootings, and the rebirth of white rage / Heather Ann Thompson.
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| Edition Statement |
First hardcover edition.
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| Imprint |
New York : Pantheon Books, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
ix, 543 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-521) and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Part I: Poisoning the Big Apple. Dreams dashed ; Secrets and scars ; Creating crisis ; Fueling fear and fury ; Profiting from pain -- Part II: Shooting to kill. An ordinary day ; Manhattan bound ; Bloodbath ; Triage ; Aftershocks ; Victims or villains -- Part III: A reckoning deferred. On the lam ; Explanations and obfuscations ; Consequences and costs ; Fallout ; Feeling the love ; The blame game ; Making the case ; Not so fast ; Pressure cooker ; Second time around ; Last-ditch effort -- Part IV: Vigilantism on trial. Gearing up for battle ; Enter the jury ; Making sense of madness ; Fumble and drive ; Bombshells and blowups ; Fighting dirty ; Smoke and mirrors ; Rewritings and remonstrations ; Justifications and judgment ; Details and delays ; Postmortem -- Part V: Justice served cold. In for a penny ; A different kind of case ; Tit for tat ; Dirty tricks ; On the offensive ; Old wine, new bottles ; Going it alone ; Relitigating the past ; Duck and weave -- Part VI: The rebirth of white rage in America. Hearts and minds ; Politics and prejudice ; Saying their names ; Referendum ; Fury unfurled ; Reaping what was sown ; Requiem.
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| Summary, Etc. |
On 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. Out 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. Drawing 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. Fear and Fury is the remarkable account and a searing indictment of a crucial turning point in American history.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Goetz, Bernhard Hugo, 1947-
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
African Americans Social conditions.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Racism United States History 20th century.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
African Americans Politics and government.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
African Americans Civil rights History.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
African Americans Crimes against New York (State) New York.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
White people United States Politics and government.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
United States Politics and government 1981-1989.
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