aniela’s Reviews > When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s > Status Update

i knew the Italian Americans would play a big role in all of this

Louise Bernikow was talking about “a nation of loners” in 1986, saying “all the advances in our [lives] may not cause isolation, but they have made it more possible to live that way.” IN 1986!! Louise, I don’t know that things have improved much. Goddamn.

as I read this I’m realizing that my knowledge of American history and politics has a lot of gaps in it