{"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":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn 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\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLocking Up Our Own\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFear and Fury\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the remarkable account and a searing indictment of a crucial turning point in American history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51605097152792,"sku":"9780593702093","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/2852\/6872\/files\/9780593702093_de696.jpg?v=1769550396","url":"https:\/\/www.clearysbookstore.com\/products\/fear-and-fury-the-reagan-eighties-the-bernie-goetz-shootings-and-the-rebirth-of-white-rage","provider":"Cleary's Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}