Title: Empire of Pain:
The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Author: Patrick Radden Keefe
Genre: Nonfiction
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 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.
Rating: Very good.
Why I Like It: Very well written and I learned a lot
about the subject.
Other: listened to it on
audio
Reviewer: Nancy
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