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Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty Cover Image Book Book

Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty

Keefe, Patrick Radden 1976- (author.).

Summary: "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 Sackler's 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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  • ISBN: 9780385545686
  • ISBN: 9780385545693
  • ISBN: 9780385547741
  • ISBN: 0385545681
  • Physical Description: print
    xii, 535 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2021]

Contents / Notes

General Note:
Genealogical table on lining papers.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 446-515) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Prologue: The taproot -- Patriarch. A good name -- The asylum -- Med man -- Penicillin for the blues -- China fever -- The octopus -- The Dendur derby -- Estrangement -- Ghost marks -- To thwart the inevitability of death -- Dynasty. Apollo -- Heir apparent -- Matter of Sackler -- The ticking clock -- God of dreams -- H-bomb -- Sell, sell, sell -- Ann Hedonia -- The Pablo Escobar of the new millennium -- Take the fall -- Legacy. Turks -- Tamperproof -- Ambassadors -- It's a hard truth, ain't it -- Temple of greed -- Warpath -- Named defendants -- The phoenix -- Un-naming -- Afterword.

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