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On December 22nd, 1984, in a graffiti-covered New York City subway car,

passengers looked on in horror as a white loner named Bernard Getz shot four black teens, Daryl Caby, Barry Allen,

Troy Canty, and James Ramsey at point-blank range. He then disappeared into a dark tunnel.

After an intense manhunt and his eventual surrender in New Hampshire, the man the tabloid media had dubbed the Death Wish Vigilante, would become a celebrity and a hero to countless

ordinary Americans who had been frustrated with the economic fallout of the Reagan 80s.

Overnight, Goetz' young victims would become villains.

Out of this dramatic moment would emerge an angry nation,

in which Rupert Murdoch's New York Post and later Fox News Network

stoked the fear and the fury of a stunning number of Americans.

Drawing from never-before-seen archival materials, legal files, and more,

Heather Ann Thompson narrates the Bernie Getz subway shootings

and their decades-long reverberations,

while deftly recovering the lives of boys whom too many decided didn't

matter. Fear and fury is a remarkable account and a searing indictment of a crucial turning

point in American history. The book that we're featuring this evening is Fear and Fury, the Reagan 80s, the Bernie

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