Book Talk: Heather Thompson

Dr. Heather Ann Thompson is an award-winning historian at the University of Michigan and the author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Pr*son Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy, which won both the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes. A leading public intellectual, her writing regularly appears in The New York Times and The Washington Post, and she frequently contributes to national news broadcasts and documentaries. She joins us to present her latest book, Fear and Fury: The Reagan 80s, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage (2026), which examines the roots of modern American racial politics.

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