{"product_id":"when-the-clock-broke-con-men-conspiracists-and-the-origins-of-trumpism-9781405981699","title":"When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists and the Origins of Trumpism","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): John Ganz\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eTHE \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e BESTSELLER • A BARACK OBAMA SUMMER PICK\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\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\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWhen the Clock Broke\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e is leagues more insightful on the subject of Trump’s ascent than most writing that purports to address the issue directly’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘Terrific . . . Vibrant . . . \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWhen the Clock Broke\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e is one of those rarest of books: unflaggingly entertaining while never losing sight of its moral core’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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, conspiracists and racists declared a culture war on liberal elites, rejected ‘globalism’ and called for a ‘populist-based presidency’ – that birthed Donald Trump’s America.\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\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eOne of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e’s 10 Best Books of 2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eOne of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e’ 100 Notable Books of 2024\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award 2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45848003641495,"sku":"9781405981699","price":455.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781405981699.webp?v=1769297398","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/when-the-clock-broke-con-men-conspiracists-and-the-origins-of-trumpism-9781405981699","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}