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Books

How fast is the USA sinking? Ferdinand Mount THE RISE AND FALL OF THE GREAT POWERS by Paul Kennedy Unwin Hyman, £18.95 H istories of civilisation come in one size — large — but......

Plunging To New Depths In The Valley

Byron Rogers LOVELY ME by Barbara Seaman Sidgwick & Jackson, £13.95 T he critic Gloria Steinem had to fight her literary editor to get the review into the paper. He thought the......