{"product_id":"fear-and-fury-the-reagan-eighties-the-bernie-goetz-shootings-and-the-rebirth-of-white-rage","title":"Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage","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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.","brand":"Heather Ann Thompson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53490108891500,"sku":"9780593702093","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0912\/7985\/1884\/files\/9780593702093-us.jpg?v=1775225105","url":"https:\/\/commercestreetbooks.com\/products\/fear-and-fury-the-reagan-eighties-the-bernie-goetz-shootings-and-the-rebirth-of-white-rage","provider":"Commerce Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}