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Keri Leigh Merritt @kerileighmerritt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“With deft care, a critical eye, & an oh-so-rare appreciation for the true complexity of what brought people into the Black freedom struggle, this close study of Lillian Smith’s life and activism gives us all hope in this current moment of brutal hatred & intolerance.” @historianheather.bsky.social

Cover of An Inconvenient Woman with endorsement: “With deft care, a critical eye, and an oh-so-rare appreciation for the true complexity of what brought people into the Black freedom struggle, this close study of Lillian Smith’s life and activism gives us all hope is this current moment of brutal hatred and intolerance.”
-HEATHER ANN THOMPSON,
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water

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Andy @crowbar-andy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Up late reading @historianheather.bsky.social’s Blood in the Water on the Attica prison uprising in upstate New York in 1971 and was compelled to tab this scene — incisive writing

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'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage by Heather Ann Thompson. Very detailed and upsetting history of a very violent crime, and how it's linked to today

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 17/04/2026

In contrast “Beyond simply disputing the deplorable racial scripts that defined the Goetz trial at the time, Fear and Fury also offers a clarifying look at the pernicious interlacing of race, crime, and capitalism surrounding Goetz’s attack and the ensuing trials.”

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Heather Ann Thompson @historianheather.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Argh the editing frenzy going to press! Will make sure its corrected to original! Thx!

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Bradley Morgan @bradleymorgan.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Finished reading “Fear and Fury” by @historianheather.bsky.social. A powerful account of the tragedy that eschews the media sensationalism for restoring dignity to the true victims of the shootings. A sobering and sadly all too relevant look into how history repeats itself, and often exponentially.

“Fear and fury: the Regan eighties, the Bernie Goetz shootings, and the rebirth of white rage” by heather Ann Thompson

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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 05/06/2026

Just this morning, I reached the point in Heather Ann Thompson’s “Fear and Fury” where the New York Crime Victims Board denied Darrell Cabey compensation for the paralysis and brain injury he suffered bc Bernie Goetz shot him. Same reasoning.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The most salient fact of the Bernie Goetz case is that he gave a voluntary confession to New Hampshire and NYC police in which he admitted that he didn’t think any of the young men he shot were armed or trying to rob him

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TC @tctulpa.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The Reagan Greed-Is-Good Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage Fear and Fury author Heather Ann Thompson on Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci youtu.be/eGJu7lAK-H0?...

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Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

YouTube video by Anthony Scaramucci

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Frank Lynch @fplynch.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Heather Ann Thompson knows of what she skeets: if you missed her book on the riots at Attica State Prison, there's still time to mend your ways.

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Benjamin Franklinstein @mitchellg657.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I'm in the last few pages of Michael Wehunt's Nightjars (got an ARC), then it's time for:

Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings,and the Rebirth of White Rage, by Heather Ann Thompson

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 25/06/2026

Fascinating tidbit in @historianheather.bsky.social's excellent FEAR AND FURY: you will be SHOCKED by the politician who previously insisted on putting armed thugs at polling places to prevent "fraud" (you will not be shocked)

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THE 1993 CAMPAIGN: Polling Places; 2 Sides Seek More Police to Stymie Intimidation and Fraud at Polls (Published 1993)

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 18/06/2026

I'm reading this now and YES it's catnip for me but nevertheless, absolute fire

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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Fear and Fury by Heather Ann Thompson When did white rage become normalized? This is the question that drew Thompson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, to the story of Bernie Goetz, a white man who shot four Black teenagers on a subway in 1984. Read the review 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/b...

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George Mellie @mellieman.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Came across an interesting interview by Anthony Scaramucci - it’s on YouTube and the interview is with Heather Ann Thompson discussing her new book Fear & Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage. 1/3

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Kel in the U.S.A. @lekdrol.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I just finished #reading this #book: #FearAndFury by #HeatherAnnThompson #BernieGoetz, #foxnews, #donaldtrump... Basically a book about everything terrible in the world. White men that are afraid everything is the right-wing's definition of tough, as true then as now. #Booksky #ReadingIsDelicious

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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

“Riveting.”—Carol Steiker, Harvard Law School “Deeply moving and sobering.”—Heather Ann Thompson, author of FEAR AND FURY bit.ly/41YTDlQ

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𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗱 @photoframd.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

WSJ - Natalie Harp, Trump’s executive assistant, preps and posts approved messages to Trump's social accounts. WSJ analysis confirms that Trump uses his social media to spread conspiracy theories and attack his adversaries #TrumpLiesAboutEverything www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

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The Late-Night Truth Social Storms That Offer a Window Into the President’s Mind

A WSJ analysis of thousands of posts found that the president uses the social-media platform to spread conspiracy theories and attack his adversaries.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 13/05/2026

Okay yall. Pray for me. Today I have to speak in front of a room full of hundreds of strangers and DONORS and tell them that women impacted by incarceration are (fun fact) living breathing human beings who matter.

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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

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Heather Ann Thompson @historianheather.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

(and that are trade or university press published!) there are lots to choose from too :). I highly recommend the books by historians Hemmer and Brownell, but also check out the primary sources that came from Fox itself. Such crazy stories! Anyway, thank you again!

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Heather Ann Thompson @historianheather.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

producing and then self publishing highly derivative overview volumes, lol), it is nevertheless a fascinating read. That said, if you also want to read some of the more deeply and originally researched histories of fox and the rise of conservative media that also undergird my book

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Heather Ann Thompson @historianheather.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Thanks you so much for reading, Luan! So grateful to you for your thoughts. Definitely check out the book in the note you mention, it’s actually so interesting! Even though that book is also, as i noted in the citation, published independently by Reade herself (a woman who clearly makes her living

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Jeff Boyardee @jerkstorecalling.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

7. Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage by Heather Ann Thompson. If you like courtroom dramas, this is for you.

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gregjarboe.bsky.social @gregjarboe.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Heather Ann Thompson is a professor of history at the University of Michigan and the author of “Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage.” www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/15/o...

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Stoking white rage — from Bernie Goetz to ICE - The Boston Globe

How conservative media and the Republican Party have exploited violence.

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Heather Ann Thompson @historianheather.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Thank you SO much for being there. I am grateful

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Kai Kronfield @kaikronfield.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I love it when my library gets the books I’ve requested on @libbyapp.com! I’ve been looking forward to this one about Bernie Goetz and the white rage of the 80’s from @historianheather.bsky.social.

Notice from Libby that the SF Library got a copy of the new book Fear and Fury.

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