Fear and Fury The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage

You could start with those two books that came out recently that Chuck just mentioned, um, Five Bullets by Elliot Williams and Fear and Fury, colon, The Reagan 80s, The Bernard Goetz Shootings, and The Rebirth of White Rage by Heather Ann Thompson

Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Heather Ann Thompson sits down with Jon Stewart to discuss her new book, "Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage."

is a historian and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose new book is called Fear and Fury, The Reagan 80s, The Bernadette Shootings, and The Rebirth of White Rage.

By the way, fabulous. Read the book, fabulous. Reads gripping, suspenseful.

And the thing is, I think the book, I hope, really kind of lays bare. It's curated, you've got this media that's curating this outrage, this racial outrage, particularly.

Third, Heather Ann Thompson's new book, Fear and Fury, I thought was just a terrific read. I absolutely loved it.

her new book is fear and fury

Historian and Pulitzer Prizewinning author Heather Ann Thompson has written a new book that explores fear, how it has become one of the most powerful forces in American life, powerful enough to excuse violence, shape policy, and decide whose lives matter.

The book is titled Fear and Fury, The Reagan 80s, The Bernard Goetz Shootings, and The Rebirth of White Rage.

We're talking with Pulitzer Prizewinning author Heather Ann Thompson about her new book Fear and Fury, which traces how a 1984 New York City subway shooting helped shape the politics of fear we're still living with today.

Heather Ann Thompson's book is Fear and Fury, The Reagan 80s, The Bernie Goetz Shootings, and The Rebirth of White Rage.

We are watching someone tell us exactly who they are, exactly what they did, and it will not matter. Up will become down, down will become up. And that also felt very, very familiar to where we are today.

Powerful enough to excuse violence, shape policy, and decide whose lives matter.

If I had more bullets, I would have shot them all again and again. My problem was I ran out of bullets. And I was going to gouge one of the guy's eyes out with my keys afterwards. You can't understand this. I know you can't understand this. That's fine. The only reason I didn't do it is because he had changed as well.

The confession is this astonishing piece of tape that also really resonated with me in terms of the contemporary moment we are in because we are watching someone tell us exactly who they are, exactly what they did. And it will not matter. Up will become down. Down will become up.

Race. I mean, there is an inescapable story here about the way in which this case and subsequent cases like it were fueled and animated and legitimated by the sense that the people who had been killed or harmed or damaged had deserved exactly what they got.