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"John Ganz is the most important young political writer of his generation -- just the one our dark moment needs." -- Rick Perlstein. "Lively and kaleidoscopic." -- Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker. "John Ganz belongs to a species of public intellectual that is almost extinct . . . When the Clock Broke is the first of what I hope will be a shelf of books that help us uncover the true history of our times." -- Jeet Heer. A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era -- and their dark legacy today. . With the Soviet Union extinct, Saddam Hussein defeated, and U.S. power at its zenith, the early 1990s promised a "kinder, gentler America." Instead, it was a period of rising anger and domestic turmoil, anticipating the polarization and resurgent extremism we know today.