Paul Gootenberg, a former Rhodes Scholar with a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, teaches Latin American history at New York’s public Stony Brook University. He lives in Brooklyn and has two beautiful children. Before turning to the considerably more exciting field of global drug history, he published a number of notable academic books in Andean history, including Between Silver and Guano: Commercial Policy and the State in Postindependence Peru (Princeton, 1989).
Andean Cocaine is cocaine’s first full-length biography. The book is, I hope, a more “serious” than usual history of the infamous drug, covering more than a century from cocaine’s birth as a coveted medicinal good of the 1860s to its rebirth as the controversial specialty of the Colombian traffickers in the 1970s.I went for a striking new narrative, based entirely on fresh historical evidence, including specially declassified papers of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, the DEA. Global in context, Andean Cocaine traces cocaine’s origins back to its historic homeland in the Andes–the tropical zones of eastern Peru–an area which has played an underestimated yet pivotal role in cocaine’s emergence as a modern illicit drug.
Paul Gootenberg Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug University of North Carolina Press448 pages, 9 x 6 inches ISBN 978 0807859056 ISBN 978 0807832295
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