The Nutty ’90s
John Ganz’s When the Clock Broke offers a tour of ’90s politics, from Klansmen strangled on talk shows to a drugged-up George H. W. Bush running for office.
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Do the 1990s hold the key to understanding today’s authoritarian populism? That’s intellectual historian John Ganz’s contention in his new book, When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Con-spiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s. In a post-2016 election daze, liberals often projected onto the past a frictionless world of open borders and […]
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