Alfred McCoy’s 

Political Caricatures of the American Era

 Alfred W. McCoy

Dr. Alfred W. McCoy is a professor of SE Asian History at the U. of Wisconsin at Madison. He’s spent
the past quarter-century writing about politics and the history of the opium trade. He was the
plenary speaker at the 7th International Conference on Drug Harm Reduction in Hobart, Australia.

Background of The Author

Born in 1945, Massachusetts U.S.A

Citizenship United States of America

 He's spent the past quarter-century writing about the politics & history of the opium trade. In
addition to publications, he serves as a correspondent for the Observatoire Geopolitique des
Drogues in Paris & was plenary speaker at their '92 conference in Paris sponsored by the
European Community.

 Academic Career
Bachelor of Arts in European History from Columbia University in 1968

Master of Arts in Asian Studies from University of California, Berkely in 1969

Doctor of Philosophy in Southeast Asian History from Yale University in 1977

 Published Works
 *The politics of heroin (2003 (1972)
 *In the shadows of the American century (2017)
 Priest on trial (1985)
 Drug traffic-narcotics organized crime in Australia
 The politics of heroin in southeast Asia
 Closer than brothers: manhood at the Philippine
 Closer than brothers: manhood at the Philippine military(1999)
 Policing America’s empire (2009)
 A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror (New York,
2006)
 To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change (Chicago, 2021)
 . Beer of Broadway Fame: The Piel Family and Their Brooklyn Brewery. SUNY Press, 2016
 Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation. Madison: University of
Wisconsin Press, 2012.
 Selected Awards
Yale Graduate School Alumni Asssociaton, Wilbur Cross Medal, 2012.
University of Wisconsin, Hilldale Award for Arts & Humanities, 2012
Association for Asian Studies, George Kahin Prize, 2011.
University of Wisconsin Graduate School, J.R.W. Smail Chair in History, 2004.
Philippine National Book Award, 1985, 1995, 2001.
Association for Asian Studies, Grant Goodman Prize, 2001.
Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad, 1998-99.

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Alfredo Reyes-Roces is a gifted artist-writer from the known Roces clan in

Philippine print media. He is the author of the latest book on the Roces
family, "Looking for Liling" and the National Book Award-winning title, "Felix
Resurreccion Hidalgo and the Generation of 1972".

Alfredo Reyes-Roces- is a gifted artist-writer from the known Roces clan in Philippine print media. He is the
author of the latest book on the Roces family, "Looking for Liling" and the National Book Award-winning title,
"Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo and the Generation of 1972".

https://rocesfamily.com/sm2002/rocesphils/ding.htm

Academic career

He finished elementary at St. Mary's College in 1946.

He transferred at the Far Eastern University for his high school and graduated in 1950.
For college he went to the University of Notre Dame and completed a degree in Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1954. He
also attended the Arts Students' League of New York in the years 1955 - 1956 with the well-known German
Dadaist, George Grosz, as his mentor. Finally, for a year (however not mentioned when) he trained at an
advertising firm in New York called Donahue and Coe.

Published works

Alfredo R. Roces have 66 works in 248 publications in two languages and 3,557 library holdings.

(one of his works are)

Cultureshock Philippines-published 1985

Philippines_ published 1992

Looking for liling- published 2000

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