Books by Alfred W. McCoy and Complete Book Reviews

The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade

Alfred W. McCoy, Author Lawrence Hill Books $32.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55652-125-6

Nearly 20 years ago, McCoy wrote The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia , which stirred up considerable controversy, alleging that the CIA was intimately involved in the Vietnamese opium trade. In the current volume, a substantially updated and...

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In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power

Alfred W. McCoy. Dispatch, $18 trade paper (280p) ISBN 978-1-60846-773-0

McCoy (Beer of Broadway Fame), professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, portrays America, in its 20th-century rise to global governance, as Athenian in its ability to forge alliances, Roman in its emphasis on military superiority,

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