An edition of When the Clock Broke
(2024)
When the Clock Broke
Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked up in the Early 1990s
by John Ganz
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A deep but narrow dive into how mainly national U.S. politics were shaped largely by conservative and reactionary forces in the first few years of the 1990s.
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conservatism, conspiracy theories, Los Angeles Police Department, presidential elections, populism, racism, Republican Party, U.S. politicsPeople
Pat Buchanan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, David Duke, Samuel T. Francis, Daryl Gates, H. Ross Perot, Ronald Reagan, Murray RothbardTimes
1990–1992Showing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked up in the Early 1990s
2024, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
in English
0374605459 9780374605452
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When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked up in the Early 1990s
2024, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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0374605440 9780374605445
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First Sentence
"On January 21, 1989, the day after George H. W. Bush’s inauguration, David Duke, the former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, a neo-Nazi, and the head of an organization called the National Association for the Advancement of White People, finished first in an open primary for Louisiana’s eight-first legislative district."
Table of Contents
Introduction: The End
1. Swamp Creature
2. Winter of Discontent
3. Chaos and Old Night
4. The Voice of America
5. Little Caesar
6. Rage
7. The Thin Blue Line
8. Keeping America American
9. “We’re at War”
10. “Buying the Country Back”
11. The Howling Wilderness
12. The Mosaic
13. “...The Economy, Stupid”
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
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