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Heather Ann Thompson
@historianheather.bsky.social
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Pulitzer Prize winning author, book on Attica, next on Bernie Goetz/80s, then MOVE Bombing. In NYT, TIME, New Yorker, Atlantic, etc. + CJ policy work & script consulting. WritersHouse & CAA repped.
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Heather Ann Thompson @historianheather.bsky.social · Jun 17
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Tonight at 11 ET! THE Daily Show! ♥️🙏🏻
February 3, 2026 at 3:52 AM
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February 1, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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I am currently reading this book, and it is brilliant. Read this and the books of Rick Perlstein and you will know a great deal about how we got here. @rickperlstein.bsky.social @historianheather.bsky.social
I am currently reading this book, and it is brilliant.
January 31, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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Seen in NYC!
January 31, 2026 at 6:44 AM
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This culture you can't miss, featuring:
- @historianheather.bsky.social on the Bernie Goetz shooting
- ‘Canada Shore’: pointless, yet watchable @elamin.bsky.social
- Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ @laurenmurphyjourno.bsky.social @sweetoblivion.bsky.social

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January 30, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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NYC
January 30, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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"Fear and Fury" w/ Author Heather Ann Thompson & Susan J. Demas | First Draft

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"Fear and Fury" w/ Author Heather Ann Thompson & Susan J. Demas | First Draft
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January 29, 2026 at 8:41 AM
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Heather Ann Thompson
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Pulitzer Prize winning author, books incld Attica, next one on Bernie Goetz shootings, then MOVE bombing.

Her book is 'Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage.'

#minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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In her new book, Heather Ann Thompson recounts this, and how it is tied to "the rebirth of white rage" and has led us to today.

www.heatherannthompson.com/fear-and-fury
Dr. Heather Ann Thompson — Fear and Fury
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January 27, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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Nothing Random: Bennett Cerf and the Publishing House He Built
Julian Barnes, Departure(s)
Melissa Faliveno, Hemlock
Jeanette McCurdy, Half His Age
Jeanette Winterson, One Aladdin Two Lamps
Heather Ann Thompson, Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage
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let's play a little game: what is your single most-anticipated book of 2026 that you have not yet seen on any other most anticipated lists?
January 7, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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🙏🏻♥️
January 29, 2026 at 4:04 AM
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♥️🥰
January 29, 2026 at 3:55 AM
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Amazing interview. Difficult to listen but HUGELY insightful about racism has decimated our society, for all of us. It made me WHITE HOT with an anger that was already at a low boil. As a nation we MUST reckon with the legacy of slavery and deeply rooted racism, and take responsibility to change.
January 27, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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📚⚖️ In "Fear and Fury" Heather Ann Thompson restores humanity to the men shot by Bernie Goetz and brilliantly exposes the media playbook that still turns vigilantes into heroes.

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#BookSky #NetGalley #History

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"Fear and Fury" Review: When Vigilantes Become Folk Heroes
Historian Heather Ann Thompson on Bernie Goetz, the four young Black men he shot, and a media-rage playbook America never abandoned
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January 27, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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"Infamous 1984 #NewYork subway shooting."

Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @historianheather.bsky.social & @pantheonbooks.bsky.social!

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January 28, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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FEAR and FURY PUB DAY! I am so deeply grateful to Pantheon who stood behind this book, so steadfastly behind my determination to get the stories & truths that have so long been obscured in the Bernie Goetz shootings told—esp to recover the lives of the four teenagers that he shot. (More below)
January 29, 2026 at 3:53 AM
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Wonderful article! Just ordered your book ✊🏽
January 27, 2026 at 5:07 AM
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The Atlantic today
January 26, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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Fresh Air today
January 26, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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@historianheather.bsky.social Your article in The Atlantic this morning was excellent. I will buy your book.
January 26, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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snow day indulgence: listening to my dissertation advisor @historianheather.bsky.social on Fresh Air www.npr.org/2026/01/26/n...
How a 1984 NYC subway shooting let to the politics of resentment we see today
In Fear and Fury, historian Heather Ann Thompson revisits Bernhard Goetz's shooting of four Black teens — and explains how the incident reshaped criminal justice, national policy and media coverage.
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January 26, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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I’ve got my copy. How about you? #fearandfury #berniegoetz #nyc @historianheather.bsky.social
January 24, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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Wonderful to see @historianheather.bsky.social's book about the Bernie Goetz shootings (along with one by Eliot Williams) reviewed by @jenszalai.bsky.social in @nytimes.com. Can't wait to read Heather's study of the "rebirth of white rage" in the 1980s.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/b...
How a 1984 Subway Shooting Foretold the Rise of Vigilante Violence
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January 24, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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Picked up new books by @historianheather.bsky.social and Matthew Delmont. Bring on the snow. #booksky
January 24, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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7 New Books We Love This Week NYT www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/b...
January 23, 2026 at 4:38 AM