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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780385545686
- Book Title
- Empire of Pain : the Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
- Item Length
- 9.3in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.5in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, Psychology, Business & Economics, Medical
- Topic
- Rich & Famous, White Collar Crime, Industries / Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Pharmacology, Psychopathology / Addiction
- Item Width
- 6.3in
- Item Weight
- 31.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 560 Pages
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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE NOMINEE - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - 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 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. Empire of Pain begins with the story of three doctor brothers, Raymond, Mortimer and the incalculably energetic Arthur, who weathered the poverty of the Great Depression and appalling anti-Semitism. Working at a barbaric mental institution, Arthur saw a better way and conducted groundbreaking research into drug treatments. He also had a genius for marketing, especially for pharmaceuticals, and bought a small ad firm. Arthur devised the marketing for Valium, and built the first great Sackler fortune. He purchased a drug manufacturer, Purdue Frederick, which would be run by Raymond and Mortimer. The brothers began collecting art, and wives, and grand residences in exotic locales. Their children and grandchildren grew up in luxury. Forty years later, Raymond's son Richard ran the family-owned Purdue. The template Arthur Sackler created to sell Valium--co-opting doctors, influencing the FDA, downplaying the drug's addictiveness--was employed to launch a far more potent product: OxyContin. The drug went on to generate some thirty-five billion dollars in revenue, and to launch a public health crisis in which hundreds of thousands would die. This 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. 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. Empire of Pain is a masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, exhaustively documented and ferociously compelling. It is a portrait of the excesses of America's second Gilded Age, a study of impunity among the super elite and a relentless investigation of the naked greed and indifference to human suffering that built one of the world's great fortunes.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385545681
ISBN-13
9780385545686
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9050062720
Product Key Features
Book Title
Empire of Pain : the Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Rich & Famous, White Collar Crime, Industries / Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Pharmacology, Psychopathology / Addiction
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, Psychology, Business & Economics, Medical
Number of Pages
560 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
1.5in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
31.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hd9666.94k444 2021
Reviews
"An engrossing (and frequently enraging) tale of striving, secrecy and self-delusion....Keefe nimbly guides us through the thicket of family intrigues and betrayals... Even when detailing the most sordid episodes, Keefe''s narrative voice is calm and admirably restrained, allowing his prodigious reporting to speak for itself. His portrait of the family is all the more damning for its stark lucidity." - Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times "A true tragedy in multiple acts. It is the story of a family that lost its moorings and its morals... Written with novelistic family-dynasty and family-dynamic sweep, EMPIRE OF PAIN is a pharmaceutical FORSYTHE SAGA, a book that in its way is addictive, with a page-turning forward momentum." - David M. Shribman, The Boston Globe "A brutal, multigenerational treatment of the Sackler family... Keefe deepens the narrative by tracing the family''s ambitions and ruthless methods back to the founding patriarch, Arthur Sackler...His life might be a model for the American dream, if it hadn''t arguably laid the foundations for a still-unfolding national tragedy." - Brian Mann, NPR.org "The opioid epidemic has killed nearly half a million Americans over the past two decades. Many of their loved ones, along with public health advocates and experts, believe that one very rich, very famous family has never fully faced the consequences for its role in those deaths. EMPIRE OF PAIN, the explosive new book by journalist Patrick Radden Keefe, is an attempt to change that -- to hold the family accountable in a way that nobody has quite done before, by telling its story as the saga of a dynasty driven by arrogance, avarice and indifference to mass suffering.... Keefe marshals a large pile of evidence and deploys it with prosecutorial precision. Keefe is a gifted storyteller who excels at capturing personalities." - Jonathan Cohn, The Washington Post "Keefe has a way of making the inaccessible incredibly digestible, of morphing complex stories into page-turning thrillers, and he''s done it again with Empire of Pain...A scathing -- but meticulously reported -- takedown of the extended family behind OxyContin, widely believed to be at the root cause of our nation''s opioid crisis. It''s equal parts juicy society gossip and historical record of how they built their dynasty and eventually pushed Oxy onto the market." - Seija Rankin, Entertainment Weekly "An air-tight indictment of the family behind the opioid crisis....[an] impressive exposé." - Harriet Ryan , The Los Angeles Times "A damning portrait of the Sacklers, the billionaire clan behind the OxyContin epidemic. If you are someone who engages in this kind of sneaky conduct, the last person you want reporting on you is Keefe....[He] has a knack for crafting lucid, readable descriptions of the sort of arcane business arrangements the Sacklers favored. He is also indefatigable....The Sackler infighting described in Empire of Pain will surely prompt many comparisons to the HBO series Succession." - Laura Miller, Slate "Put simply, this book will make your blood boil....a devastating portrait of a family consumed by greed and unwilling to take the slightest responsibility or show the least sympathy for what it wrought....a highly readable and disturbing narrative." - John Carreyrou, The New York Times Book Review "Indefatigable investigative journalist Keefe crafts a page-turning corporate biography and jaw-dropping condemnation of the Sacklers'' amoral disregard for anything save the acquisition of power, privilege, and influence. In Keefe''s expert hands, the Sackler family saga becomes an enraging exposé of what happens when utter devotion to the accumulation of wealth is paired with an unscrupulous disregard for human health." -- Carol Haggas, Booklist, "An engrossing (and frequently enraging) tale of striving, secrecy and self-delusion....Keefe nimbly guides us through the thicket of family intrigues and betrayals... Even when detailing the most sordid episodes, Keefe's narrative voice is calm and admirably restrained, allowing his prodigious reporting to speak for itself. His portrait of the family is all the more damning for its stark lucidity." - Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times "A true tragedy in multiple acts. It is the story of a family that lost its moorings and its morals... Written with novelistic family-dynasty and family-dynamic sweep, EMPIRE OF PAIN is a pharmaceutical FORSYTHE SAGA, a book that in its way is addictive, with a page-turning forward momentum." - David M. Shribman, The Boston Globe "A brutal, multigenerational treatment of the Sackler family... Keefe deepens the narrative by tracing the family's ambitions and ruthless methods back to the founding patriarch, Arthur Sackler...His life might be a model for the American dream, if it hadn't arguably laid the foundations for a still-unfolding national tragedy." - Brian Mann, NPR.org "The opioid epidemic has killed nearly half a million Americans over the past two decades. Many of their loved ones, along with public health advocates and experts, believe that one very rich, very famous family has never fully faced the consequences for its role in those deaths. EMPIRE OF PAIN, the explosive new book by journalist Patrick Radden Keefe, is an attempt to change that -- to hold the family accountable in a way that nobody has quite done before, by telling its story as the saga of a dynasty driven by arrogance, avarice and indifference to mass suffering.... Keefe marshals a large pile of evidence and deploys it with prosecutorial precision. Keefe is a gifted storyteller who excels at capturing personalities." - Jonathan Cohn, The Washington Post Keefe has a way of making the inaccessible incredibly digestible, of morphing complex stories into page-turning thrillers, and he's done it again with Empire of Pain...A scathing -- but meticulously reported -- takedown of the extended family behind OxyContin, widely believed to be at the root cause of our nation's opioid crisis. It's equal parts juicy society gossip and historical record of how they built their dynasty and eventually pushed Oxy onto the market." - Seija Rankin, Entertainment Weekly Indefatigable investigative journalist Keefe crafts a page-turning corporate biography and jaw-dropping condemnation of the Sacklers' amoral disregard for anything save the acquisition of power, privilege, and influence. In Keefe's expert hands, the Sackler family saga becomes an enraging exposé of what happens when utter devotion to the accumulation of wealth is paired with an unscrupulous disregard for human health. -- Carol Haggas, Booklist, New York Times Bestseller "An engrossing (and frequently enraging) tale of striving, secrecy and self-delusion....Keefe nimbly guides us through the thicket of family intrigues and betrayals... Even when detailing the most sordid episodes, Keefe''s narrative voice is calm and admirably restrained, allowing his prodigious reporting to speak for itself. His portrait of the family is all the more damning for its stark lucidity." - Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times "A true tragedy in multiple acts. It is the story of a family that lost its moorings and its morals... Written with novelistic family-dynasty and family-dynamic sweep, EMPIRE OF PAIN is a pharmaceutical FORSYTHE SAGA, a book that in its way is addictive, with a page-turning forward momentum." - David M. Shribman, The Boston Globe "A brutal, multigenerational treatment of the Sackler family... Keefe deepens the narrative by tracing the family''s ambitions and ruthless methods back to the founding patriarch, Arthur Sackler...His life might be a model for the American dream, if it hadn''t arguably laid the foundations for a still-unfolding national tragedy." - Brian Mann, NPR.org "The opioid epidemic has killed nearly half a million Americans over the past two decades. Many of their loved ones, along with public health advocates and experts, believe that one very rich, very famous family has never fully faced the consequences for its role in those deaths. EMPIRE OF PAIN, the explosive new book by journalist Patrick Radden Keefe, is an attempt to change that -- to hold the family accountable in a way that nobody has quite done before, by telling its story as the saga of a dynasty driven by arrogance, avarice and indifference to mass suffering.... Keefe marshals a large pile of evidence and deploys it with prosecutorial precision. Keefe is a gifted storyteller who excels at capturing personalities." - Jonathan Cohn, The Washington Post "Keefe has a way of making the inaccessible incredibly digestible, of morphing complex stories into page-turning thrillers, and he''s done it again with Empire of Pain...A scathing -- but meticulously reported -- takedown of the extended family behind OxyContin, widely believed to be at the root cause of our nation''s opioid crisis. It''s equal parts juicy society gossip and historical record of how they built their dynasty and eventually pushed Oxy onto the market." - Seija Rankin, Entertainment Weekly "An air-tight indictment of the family behind the opioid crisis....[an] impressive exposé." - Harriet Ryan , The Los Angeles Times "A damning portrait of the Sacklers, the billionaire clan behind the OxyContin epidemic. If you are someone who engages in this kind of sneaky conduct, the last person you want reporting on you is Keefe....[He] has a knack for crafting lucid, readable descriptions of the sort of arcane business arrangements the Sacklers favored. He is also indefatigable....The Sackler infighting described in Empire of Pain will surely prompt many comparisons to the HBO series Succession." - Laura Miller, Slate "Put simply, this book will make your blood boil....a devastating portrait of a family consumed by greed and unwilling to take the slightest responsibility or show the least sympathy for what it wrought....a highly readable and disturbing narrative." - John Carreyrou, The New York Times Book Review "Indefatigable investigative journalist Keefe crafts a page-turning corporate biography and jaw-dropping condemnation of the Sacklers'' amoral disregard for anything save the acquisition of power, privilege, and influence. In Keefe''s expert hands, the Sackler family saga becomes an enraging exposé of what happens when utter devotion to the accumulation of wealth is paired with an unscrupulous disregard for human health." -- Carol Haggas, Booklist
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