Alfred W. McCoy

Alfred W. McCoy is the Harrington professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of the now-classic book The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, which probed the conjuncture of illicit narcotics and covert operations over 50 years, among other works. His most recent book is In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power (Dispatch Books/Haymarket).

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