When the Clock Broke

John Ganz writes the widely acclaimed Unpopular Front newsletter for Substack. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, New Republic, New Statesman and other publications.>

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John Ganz is the author of the widely acclaimed Unpopular Front newsletter for Substack and writes a monthly column for the Nation. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, New Republic, New Statesman and other publications.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A BARACK OBAMA SUMMER PICK

A rollicking, revelatory look at the tumult of the early 1990s and the rise of a new, more berserk America that birthed the Donald Trump Era

'When the Clock Broke is leagues more insightful on the subject of Trump's ascent than most writing that purports to address the issue directly' Washington Post

'A fascinating, provocative challenge to our age - passionate, unexpected, illuminating' Rory Stewart

With the Soviet Union extinct, Saddam Hussein defeated and US power at its zenith, the early 1990s promised a 'kinder, gentler America'. It didn't work out that way. Instead, it was a period of punishing economic hardship, rising anger and domestic strife, setting the tone for the polarization and resurgent extremism we know today.

In this original and often hilarious book, John Ganz narrates the fall of the Reagan order and the rise of a new kind of paranoid politics: how a group of con men and conspiracists declared a culture war on liberal elites, rejected 'globalism' and called for a 'populist based presidency'.

A rollicking exposé of the end of the post-World War II order, this book shows the advent of a new, more berserk America.

'Terrific . . . When the Clock Broke is one of those rarest of books: unflaggingly entertaining while never losing sight of its moral core' New York Times

One of the Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2024
One of the New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2024
Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award 2024

Zusammenfassung
John Ganz shows how the 1992 US election was a dress rehearsal for the triumph of Trump . . . Ganz, a journalist by trade, is a fine historian; he brings clarity to events we remember but perhaps did not fully understand. Rollicking stories are offered instead of bludgeoning polemic Gerard De Groot The Times