During the Cold War, the CIA may have had as much success with books and magazines as with gun-running and spies.

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“In 1944, George Orwell looked back to the pubs of a passing generation, conjuring up a Platonic pub which he called The Moon Under Water.’ “Orwell’s perfect pub is inseparable from something like the ...