Empire of Pain is the story of a dynasty: a parable of twenty-first-century greed. In this masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, award-winning journalist and host of the Wind of Change podcast Patrick Radden Keefe exhaustively documents the jaw-dropping and ferociously compelling reality. He was brilliant, industrious, hard-working, entrepreneurial and innovative. By Paul Markowitz Arthur Sackler, the patriarch of the Sackler family, was born in Brooklyn in 1913. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing Oxycontin, a blockbuster painkiller that was a catalyst for the opioid crisis – an international epidemic of drug addiction which has killed nearly half a million people. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Family by Patrick Radden Keefe Doubleday 560 pp. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations in the arts and the sciences. His new book Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty tells the story of a family that grew wealthy in part thanks to a drug, Ox圜ontin, that has been described as a contributing. The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions – Harvard the Metropolitan Museum of Art Oxford the Louvre. ‘You feel almost guilty for enjoying it so much’ The Times The gripping and shocking story of three generations of the Sackler family and their roles in the stories of Valium, Ox圜ontin and the opioid crisis. One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award Winner of the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction

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