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A Table for Fortune by William T Vollmann review – a hugely ambitious 3,000-page portrait of America’s decline

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The GuardianA Table for Fortune by William T Vollmann review – a hugely ambitious 3,000-page portrait of America’s decline
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This insider’s history of the CIA explores the last 50 years of US foreign policy with granular detail and mordant humour The 250th year of the American experiment seems to invite a reckoning. For a young country, the United States is overblessed – or…

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