"With the Soviet Union dissolved and Saddam Hussein defeated in Operation Desert Storm, the early 1990s promised a restoration of American confidence and primacy--as if Ronald Reagan's vow to bring 'morning in America' was finally to be fulfilled. It didn't turn out that way. As the economy contracted and anxieties about crime, immigration, and Japanese competition rose, the national mood notably darkened ... A reclusive but 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, the acclaimed writer John Ganz dissects a country in extremis. Here are the shock jocks, tough-talking police chiefs, gun-toting survivalists, and conspiracy theorists who forged a new paranoid style and politics of cultural despair ... Ganz offers a rollicking exposé of the end of the post-World War II order--and the advent of a new, more berserk America"--Dust jacket flap.
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