Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage
Vibrant, powerful, moving ... Thompson uses a range of sources to piece together a detailed portrait of Cabey ... Sobering ... Affecting.
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Excellent ... Powerful ... Thompson suggests that taken to their extremes, fear and fury can threaten democracy itself.
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Thompson rejects stereotyping the teens as thuggish stickup kids. Instead, she crafts social, personal, and familial narratives to humanize them ... Powerful ... Though she has painted a sharply accurate contextual picture of 1980s America and shown readers how to see that decade as the seed bed for our current national difficulties, Thompson’s argument that Reagan-era politics ignited white rage seems slightly askew.
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