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Back to the ’90s

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On Ganz’s “When the Clock Broke” and Lichtenstein and Stein’s “A Fabulous Failure”

Back to the ’90s - Henry Tonks When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s. By John Ganz Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024 A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism By Nelson Lichtenstein and Judith Stein Princeton University Press, 2023 Campaigning for the presidency in the midst of the 2008 economic crisis, Hillary Clinton would put this arch question to critics of her husband’s presidency: “I always wonder what part of the 1990s they didn’t like: the peace or the prosperity?” Historians of the Unite

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