{"product_id":"when-the-clock-broke","title":"When the Clock Broke Con Men, Conspiracists and the Road to Trump's America","description":"\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\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e presidency'. Trumpism was struggling to be born.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A rollicking expose 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\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\u003e Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award 2024\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47521786724577,"sku":null,"price":489.3,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/9033\/0593\/files\/16013473482688.jpg?v=1764187225","url":"https:\/\/perfectbookhouse.com\/products\/when-the-clock-broke","provider":"PERFECT BOOK HOUSE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}