Empire of Pain : The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden...

Description: 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, known for their lavish donations to the arts and the sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis.

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Book Title: Empire of Pain : the Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Number of Pages: 640 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Topic: Rich & Famous, Public Health, Industries / Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, United States / 21st Century, Pharmacology, Psychopathology / Addiction

Item Height: 1.1 in

Publication Year: 2022

Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, Psychology, History, Medical

Item Weight: 15.6 Oz

Author: Patrick Radden Keefe

Item Length: 8 in

Item Width: 5.1 in

Format: Trade Paperback