Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Patrick Radden Keefe
**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, 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 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...
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Рік:
2021
Видавництво:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Мова:
english
ISBN 10:
0385547749
ISBN 13:
9780385547741
Файл:
FB2 , 7.87 MB
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english, 2021
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