Book review: Violent and divided, the US of a bygone era is sadly familiar

This book is long, at times dense, and tough to digest, but ultimately a worthwhile read — a story of an America that hasn't changed that much at all

One of the four men wounded by Bernie Goetz is aided on the Seventh Avenue IRT train in New York on december 22, 1984. Picture: Carmine Donofrio/NY Daily News via Getty

• Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage 
• Heather Ann Thompson 
• Pantheon, $35.00