{"product_id":"9781405981699","title":"When the Clock Broke : Con Men, Conspiracists and the Origins of Trumpism","description":"\u003cp\u003eTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A BARACK OBAMA SUMMER PICK\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'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' WASHINGTON POST\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A fascinating, provocative challenge to our age - passionate, unexpected, illuminating' RORY STEWART\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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 presidency'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA rollicking exposé of the end of the post-World War II order, this book shows the advent of a new, more berserk America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Terrific . . . When the Clock Broke is one of those rarest of books: unflaggingly entertaining while never losing sight of its moral core' NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Fascinating' LONDON REVEIW OF BOOKS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2024\n\u003cbr\u003eOne of the New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2024\n\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award 2024\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48658251317483,"sku":"EB_HI0700_D15-05_SIMS","price":25.07,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781405981699-1.jpg?v=1785765074","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/zh\/products\/9781405981699","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}