Empire of Pain is the story of a dynasty: a parable of twenty-first-century greed. Expected delivery to the United States in 6-11 business days. In this masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, Patrick Radden Keefe exhaustively documents the jaw-dropping and ferociously compelling reality. Empire of Pain : The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty 4.55 (75,791 ratings by Goodreads) Hardback English By (author) Patrick Radden Keefe US35.73 Also available in Paperback US22.31 CD-Audio US35.95 Free delivery worldwide Available. 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. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations in the arts and the sciences. The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions Harvard the Metropolitan Museum of Art Oxford the Louvre. The highly anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing.

Winner of the 2021 Goodreads Choice Award for History & Biography. Winner of the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty Patrick Radden Keefe € 26.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 3-5 working days. Empire of Pain is an attentive history of the family, and gathers up evidence of how the Sacklers were aware of the ways in which Ox圜ontin drove the opioid-abuse epidemic how, in fact, they. 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.

Empire of pain by patrick radden keefe