When the Clock Broke
Subtitle: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked up in the Early 1990s
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Published: 2024
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780374605445
Copyright date: 2024
First sentence: On January 21, 1989, the day after George H. W. Bush’s inauguration, David Duke, the former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, a neo-Nazi, and the head of an organization called the National Association for the Advancement of White People, finished first in an open primary for Louisiana’s eight-first legislative district.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The End
pagenum: 3; label: 1
title: Swamp Creature
pagenum: 23; label: 2
title: Winter of Discontent
pagenum: 56; label: 3
title: Chaos and Old Night
pagenum: 80; label: 4
title: The Voice of America
pagenum: 107; label: 5
title: Little Caesar
pagenum: 132; label: 6
title: Rage
pagenum: 162; label: 7
title: The Thin Blue Line
pagenum: 182; label: 8
title: Keeping America American
pagenum: 214; label: 9
title: “We’re at War”
pagenum: 236; label: 10
title: “Buying the Country Back”
pagenum: 259; label: 11
title: The Howling Wilderness
pagenum: 286; label: 12
title: The Mosaic
pagenum: 307; label: 13
title: “...The Economy, Stupid”
pagenum: 348; title: Notes
pagenum: 375; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 401; title: Index
pagenum: 403