Gold Coast Book Fair: Heather Ann Thompson, Author of ‘Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage,’ in Conversation with Julian Zelizer

Name: Gold Coast Book Fair: Heather Ann Thompson, Author of ‘Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage,’ in Conversation with Julian Zelizer
Start: 2026-05-16
End: 2026-05-16

Pulitzer Prize winner Heather Ann Thompson, in conversation with Julian Zelizer, examines one of the most explosive moments in modern New York City history in her new book, Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage. Thompson sheds new light on the infamous 1984 subway shooting that exposed simmering racial resentments and helped usher in a fractured future and a new era of rage and violence.

Panelists:
Heather Ann Thompson

Moderator:
Julian E. Zelizer