The Humble Pink Flower

How a Pink Flower Defeated the World’s Sole Superpower: America’s Opium War in Afghanistan, by Alfred W. McCoy. McCoy, J. R. W. Smail Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the prolific author of such classics as The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia; (later revised and updated as The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade); A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror; Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation; Priests on Trial; A History of the Philippines; Endless Empire: Spain’s Retreat, Europe’s Eclipse, America’s Decline; Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State; and Anarchy of Families: State and Family in the Philippines.

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