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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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The highly anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing. The Sackler name adorns 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 sciences. 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. Empire of Pain is a masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, exhaustively documented and ferociously compelling.
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"His portrait of the family is all the more damning for its stark lucidity."
"Keefe's book is ultimately an important record of private greed facilitated by a corrupted government."
"The judge said it was inappropriate for the forum."
"Empire of Pain, Keefe explains in his afterword, is a dynastic saga."
"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."
"a work of nonfiction that has the dramatic scope and moral power of a Victorian novel ..."
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