Behind the Mirrors

Washington may save daylight—but President Harding refuses to turn back the clock. In Clinton W. Gilbert’s opening, this neat compromise becomes a portrait of a nation afraid to meddle with “God’s Time.”

Writing in the unsettled years after the Great War, Gilbert looks from Washington at an America caught between faith in progress and longing for the reassuring past. Harding must decide what to do with the clock, while party, business, public opinion and the Farm Bloc all claim a say—and none speaks with one voice. With comic precision, Gilbert turns a scheduling dispute into a deeper question: how much should people govern their own fate, and when should they trust the machinery already in motion? The clock keeps ticking; can the country agree on who gets to set it?

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