When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

by John Ganz

As the Times-Picayune’s Tyler Bridges put it, “Edwards knew that every so often Louisiana, like a boozer swearing off alcohol, elected a reform governor but four years later always replaced him with a populist. ‘Let the good times roll,’ after all, is the state’s motto.”

“To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain.”

“We have let our country go from a country of deeds, to a country of words and images,”