History is written by the victors, says the cliché. Invariably they pay more attention to themselves than they merit. It is often more enlightening to ask the vanquished what happened. Because history keeps going, the losers could always become future winners. We should thus pay greater heed to the ghosts of battles lost. That is the premise — and brilliant insight — of John Ganz’s When the Clock Broke, a revisitation of early 1990s America.
Most people will recall that Bill Clinton…
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