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When the Clock Broke - Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s (Hardcover)
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When the Clock Broke - Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s (Hardcover)
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A revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan
era—and their dark legacy today.
With the Soviet Union extinct, Saddam Hussein defeated, and U.S. power
at its zenith, the early 1990s promised a “kinder, gentler America.”
Instead, it was a period of rising anger and domestic turmoil,
anticipating the polarization and resurgent extremism we know today.
In When the Clock Broke, the acclaimed political writer John Ganz tells
the story of America’s late-century discontents. Ranging from upheavals
in Crown Heights and Los Angeles to the advent of David Duke and the
heartland survivalists, the broadcasts of Rush Limbaugh, and the bitter
disputes between neoconservatives and the “paleo-con” right, Ganz
immerses us in a time when what Philip Roth called the “indigenous
American berserk” took new and ever-wilder forms. In the 1992 campaign,
Pat Buchanan's and Ross Perot’s insurgent populist bids upended the
political establishment, all while Americans struggled through
recession, alarm about racial and social change, the specter of a new
power in Asia, and the end of Cold War–era political norms. Conspiracy
theories surged, and intellectuals and activists strove to understand
the “Middle American Radicals” whose alienation fueled new causes.
Meanwhile, Bill Clinton appeared to forge a new, vital center, though
it would not hold for long.
In a rollicking, eye-opening book, Ganz narrates the fall of the Reagan
order and the rise of a new and more turbulent America.
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