When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s is a book written by John Ganz originally published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2024. It was reprinted by Picador in 2025 with a new postscript.
Prior to writing the book, Ganz wrote an article for The Baffler on right-wing populism in 1992.
Synopsis
Reception New York Review of Books London Review of Books The Daily Telegraph The Times n+1 The New York Times
Awards It was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.
References
External links Presentation by Ganz on When the Clock Broke, June 18, 2024, C-SPAN