{"product_id":"when-the-clock-broke","title":"When the Clock Broke","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781405981699\u003cbr\u003eFormat: B-format paperback\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2025\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER . A BARACK OBAMA SUMMER PICK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\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\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\u003cbr\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\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003epresidency'. Trumpism was struggling to be born.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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\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 mora\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"RANDOM HOUSE","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41548188156037,"sku":"PR397206","price":40.7,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TNXA2P8JHUJK.jpg?v=1773499640","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/when-the-clock-broke","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}