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Heather Ann Thompson

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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. www.heatherannthompson.com

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07.03.2026 00:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Join IPK on March 30 for a book talk with @historianheather.bsky.social. She will discuss her new book Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage with Nicole R. Fleetwood and @dumilm.bsky.social.

ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...

05.03.2026 16:47 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

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06.03.2026 22:49 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you!

06.03.2026 22:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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For the cocktails and books crowd! Join us! March 16th in NYC

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Join us!

05.03.2026 16:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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28.02.2026 16:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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an LA Day! Grateful.

26.02.2026 23:38 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So deeply honored. 🙏🏻

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26.02.2026 20:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

So I finally finished @historianheather.bsky.social new book on Bernie Goetz a couple weeks ago, and a few things stand out here. The constant framings from certain media spaces - particularly the NYPost - on criminalizing young Black boys and men.

And how the public goes along with it

26.02.2026 16:29 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0

Wow. Grateful

24.02.2026 15:15 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you, so much!

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Tuesday AND Wednesday Los Angeles!

24.02.2026 05:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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In the 1980s, the Goetz shooting showed how the media picked the narrative that set the stage for how the story was discussed. It was curated as entertainment, just like a movie.

As Neil Postman quipped, “there’s no business but show business.”

Check out @historianheather.bsky.social's new book!

23.02.2026 19:51 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
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Los Angeles!

23.02.2026 00:19 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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@historianheather.bsky.social and @monicacbell.bsky.social in the house! @harvardbookstore.bsky.social #FearAndFury

19.02.2026 01:36 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Tonight, Philly!

19.02.2026 11:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Boston peeps!

17.02.2026 18:31 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Front page NYT book review today!

15.02.2026 22:49 👍 22 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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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.

Finally something worth reading in @bostonglobe.com Sunday opinion: banger essay by @historianheather.bsky.social tracing 40 years of hard right media stoking Republican racism.

Too bad John Henry is too cheap to let me gift it.

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/15/o...

15.02.2026 14:53 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

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15.02.2026 03:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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@historianheather.bsky.social Thank you for this wonderful book, illuminating and thought provoking. I’ll be thinking of these questions forever…

15.02.2026 00:46 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Thank you so much for reading, and for sharing these powerful questions

15.02.2026 02:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Of course!!

13.02.2026 04:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

@historianheather.bsky.social has a phenomenal book that I cannot wait to read! So shoutout to her for enlightening on what we are REALLY dealing with in this country!!!!! ✊🏾💯

12.02.2026 20:05 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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12.02.2026 03:59 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Join us! NYC

12.02.2026 03:58 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Me too!

09.02.2026 21:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Heather Ann Thompson presents "Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage" in conversation with Joshua Clark Davis
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10TH 2026
7:00 PM
RED EMMA'S

Heather Ann Thompson presents "Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage" in conversation with Joshua Clark Davis TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10TH 2026 7:00 PM RED EMMA'S

I’m looking forward to this conversation *tomorrow* at @redemmas.org with @historianheather.bsky.social about her new book Fear and Fury on how vigilante NYC subway shooter Bernard Goetz’s attack on four Black teenagers paved the way for our current political era of white rage and vigilantism.

09.02.2026 14:57 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0