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

This insider’s history of the CIA explores the last 50 years of US foreign policy with granular detail and mordant humourThe 250th year of the American experiment seems to invite a reckoning. For a young country, the United States is overblessed – or burdened – with myths about its foundation and how the nation has …

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