Name: Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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Author: Patrick Radden Keefe
ISBN: 9780385545686

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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Type

Physical Book

Author

Patrick Radden Keefe

Publisher

Doubleday Books

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

560

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.1 x 16.0 x 4.6 cm

Weight

0.93 kg.

ISBN13

9780385545686

Synopsis "Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty "

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author of Say Nothing. "A real-life version of the HBO series Succession with a lethal sting in its tail...a masterful work of narrative reportage." - Laura Miller, Slate The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama--baroque personal lives; bitter disputes over estates; fistfights in boardrooms; glittering art collections; Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers; and the calculated use of money to burnish reputations and crush the less powerful. The Sackler name has adorned the walls of many storied institutions--Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, but the source of the family fortune was vague--until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis. Empire of Pain is the saga of three generations of a single family and the mark they would leave on the world, a tale that moves from the bustling streets of early twentieth-century Brooklyn to the seaside palaces of Greenwich, Connecticut, and Cap d'Antibes to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. It follows the family's early success with Valium to the much more potent OxyContin, marketed with a ruthless technique of co-opting doctors, influencing the FDA, downplaying the drug's addictiveness. Empire of Pain chronicles the multiple investigations of the Sacklers and their company, and the scorched-earth legal tactics that the family has used to evade accountability. A masterpiece of narrative reporting, Empire of Pain is a ferociously compelling portrait of America's second Gilded Age, a study of impunity among the super-elite and a relentless investigation of the naked greed that built one of the world's great fortunes.

Patrick Radden Keefe

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Patrick Radden Keefe (Boston, 1976) is a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of several non-fiction books: Chatter (2006), The Snakehead (2009), Say Nothing (2019, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Orwell Prize), Empire of Pain (2021, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize) and Rogues (2022). He has published articles in The New York Times Magazine, Slate, and The New York Review of Books. In 2014, he received the National Magazine Award in the feature writing category for "A Loaded Gun" (included in Rogues) and was a finalist for the same award in the reporting category in 2015 and 2016. He is also the creator and narrator of the eight-episode podcast Wind of Change (2020)

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