Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
27.05.2025
Verlag
Picador USASeitenzahl
448
Maße (L/B/H)
20,6/13,5/3,2 cm
Gewicht
376 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-250-39041-7
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"[A] wry and engaging account . . . 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."
-Becca Rothfeld, The Washington Post
A revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era-and their dark legacy today.
A high official in the Department of Defense is accused of running a drug trafficking operation, and the rumors reverberate. Mayoral candidate Rudy Giuliani incites a riot among police officers in Lower Manhattan. The ex-Klansman and neo-Nazi David Duke runs for governor of Louisiana and wins the white vote. "If the ideals that I stand for are addressed, then I will only be a footnote in history," he prophesies. "But if the deterioration of the white middle class continues, then I will be president."
The early 1990s promised Americans confidence and primacy. It didn't turn out that way. As the economy contracted and anxieties about crime, immigration, and foreign competition rose, the national mood darkened. An influential group of conservative thinkers rejected "globalism" and called for a "populist-based presidency" that would save the American way of life. They sought to "break the clock" and "repeal the twentieth century."
In When the Clock Broke, John Ganz dissects a country in extremis. As the Cold War consensus ended, Americans exhumed old demons and created some new ones. A culture war was declared on liberal elites, free trade was equated with the "giant sucking sound" of jobs lost to Mexico, and rowdy talk radio hosts forged bonds with audiences undergoing an "epidemic of loneliness." Increasingly, the Republican Party was the haven of the alienated and angry. When Bill Clinton won the presidency, it seemed the center had held-temporarily.
Ranging from Ruby Ridge to the Chinese restaurant in Virginia where "paleoconservatives" devised a new politics for "Middle American Radicals," Ganz offers a rollicking exposé of the end of the post-World War II order-and the advent of a new, more berserk America.
"John Ganz is the most important young political writer of his generation-just the one our dark moment needs."
-Rick Perlstein, author of Nixonland and Reaganland
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