{"product_id":"9781405981699-when-the-clock-broke","title":"When the Clock Broke","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCon Men, Conspiracists and the Origins of Trumpism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER • A BARACK OBAMA SUMMER PICK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eWhen the Clock Broke\u003c\/i\u003e is leagues more insightful on the subject of Trump’s ascent than most writing that purports to address the issue directly’ \u003ci\u003eWASHINGTON POST\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A fascinating, provocative challenge to our age – passionate, unexpected, illuminating’ RORY STEWART\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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’.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA rollicking exposé of the end of the post-World War II order, this book shows the advent of a new, more berserk America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Terrific . \u003ci\u003eWhen the Clock Broke\u003c\/i\u003e is one of those rarest of books: unflaggingly entertaining while never losing sight of its moral core’ \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Fascinating' \u003ci\u003eLONDON REVEIW OF BOOKS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e’s 10 Best Books of 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e’ 100 Notable Books of 2024\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55147277713782,"sku":"9781405981699","price":9.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_33916080.jpg?v=1745525293","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781405981699-when-the-clock-broke","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}