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    Heather Ann Thompson

    HEATHER ANN THOMPSON is a historian and the author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize. She is also the author of Whose Detroit?: Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City. Thompson has written about the criminal justice system for myriad publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker. She has served on the National Academy of Sciences blue ribbon panel that studied the causes and consequences of mass incarceration in the United States, co-runs the Carceral State Project at the University of Michigan, and has been the recipient of numerous honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, and a Racial Justice Fellowship from the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights at Harvard University. Thompson has also served as a historical consultant for film and television, including on the Oscar-nominated feature documentary Attica.
    Fear and Fury
    Fear and Fury
    The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage
    Heather Ann Thompson
    9780593702093
    $35.00 US
    Hardcover
    Jan 27, 2026
    Pantheon
    Blood in the Water
    Blood in the Water
    The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
    Heather Ann Thompson
    9781400078240
    $22.00 US
    Paperback
    Aug 22, 2017
    Vintage

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    Fear and Fury
    Fear and Fury
    The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage
    Heather Ann Thompson
    9780593702093
    $35.00 US
    Hardcover
    Jan 27, 2026
    Pantheon
    Blood in the Water
    Blood in the Water
    The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
    Heather Ann Thompson
    9781400078240
    $22.00 US
    Paperback
    Aug 22, 2017
    Vintage

    Events

    Tue Feb 10 | 07:00 PM
    RED EMMA'S
    3128 GREENMOUNT AVE
    BALTIMORE, MD 21218-3417
    Google Map

    Wed Feb 11 | 07:00 PM
    POLITICS & PROSE
    5015 CONNECTICUT AVE NW
    WASHINGTON, DC 20008-2024
    Google Map

    Thu Feb 12 | 08:00 PM
    92NY
    1395 Lexington Ave
    NEW YORK, NY 10128
    Google Map

    Wed Feb 18 | 07:00 PM
    HARVARD BOOK STORE
    1256 MASSACHUSETTS AVE
    CAMBRIDGE, MA 02138-3820
    Google Map

    Thu Feb 19 | 07:00 PM
    Philadelphia Free Library
    1901 Vine St
    Philadelphia, PA 19103
    Google Map

    Tue Feb 24
    LAPL Aloud Literary Series
    630 W. Fifth St.
    Los Angeles, CA 90071
    Google Map

    Wed Mar 04 | 06:00 PM
    Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute
    47-49 E 65th St
    NEW YORK, NY 10065
    Google Map

    Thu Mar 05 | 06:30 PM
    The End Bookstore
    3055 W TILGHMAN ST
    ALLENTOWN, PA 18104-4256
    Google Map

    Wed Mar 11 | 06:30 PM
    Center for Brooklyn History
    128 Pierrepont St
    Brooklyn, NY 11201
    Google Map

    Mon Mar 16
    Bibliotheque Wine Bar
    54 Mercer Street
    New York, NY 
    Google Map

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