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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty : the Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty / Patrick Radden Keefe.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Doubleday, April 13, 2021Edition: First editionDescription: xii, 535 pages illustrations 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • General
  • Any audience
ISBN:
  • 9780385545686
Other title:
  • Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.7/616151092273 B 23
  • 338.7/616151092273 B
LOC classification:
  • HD9666.94 K444 2021
Summary: "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 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"--. Provided by publisher.
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Books Idaho Springs Public Library ANF 929.20 KEE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 30404100276243

new book 2022 spring.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 446-515) and index.

"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 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"--. Provided by publisher.

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