Patrick Radden Keefe

Empire of Pain

The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

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?Jaw-dropping. . . Beggars belief' Sunday Times ?You feel almost guilty for enjoying it so much' The Times The gripping and shocking story of three generations of the Sackler family and their roles in the stories of Valium, OxyContin and the opioid crisis. 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 in 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 OxyContin, a blockbuste… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-5290-6310-3
EAN: 9781529063103
Produktnummer: 37335159
Verlag: Pan macmillan Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Seitenangabe: 560 S.
Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
Masse: H19.7 cm x B13.0 cm x D5.0 cm 388 g
Gewicht: 388
Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.

Über den Autor

Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction), Say Nothing: Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, as well as the critically-acclaimed books, The Snakehead, and Chatter. He is the writer and host of the eight-part podcast Wind of Change on the origins of the Scorpions' power ballad. He is the recipient of the 2014 National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Reporting in 2015 and 2016, and also received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He grew up in Boston and now lives in New York.