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100 1 $aKeefe, Patrick Radden,$d1976-$eauthor.
245 10 $aEmpire of pain :$bthe secret history of the Sackler dynasty /$cPatrick Radden Keefe.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bDoubleday,$c[2021]
264 4 $c©2021
300 $a1 online resource (598 pages) :$billustrations
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 453-515) and index.
505 0 $aCover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- The Sackler dynasty -- Prologue : The taproot -- Book I. Patriarch -- Chapter 1. A good name -- Chapter 2. The asylum -- Chapter 3. Med man -- Chapter 4. Penicillin for the blues -- Chapter 5. China fever -- Chapter 6. The octopus -- Chapter 7. The Dendur Derby -- Chapter 8. Estrangement -- Chapter 9. Ghost marks -- Chapter 10. To thwart the inevitability of death -- Book II. Dynasty -- Chapter 11. Apollo -- Chapter 12. Heir apparent -- Chapter 13. Matter of Sackler -- Chapter 14. The ticking clock -- Chapter 15. God of dreams -- Chapter 16. H-bomb -- Chapter 17. Sell, sell, sell -- Chapter 18. Ann Hedonia -- Chapter 19. The Pablo Escobar of the new millennium -- Chapter 20. Take the fall -- Book III. Legacy -- Chapter 21. Turks -- Chapter 22. Tamperproof -- Chapter 23. Ambassadors -- Chapter 24. It's a hard truth, ain't it -- Chapter 25. Temple of greed -- Chapter 26. Warpath -- Chapter 27. Named defendants -- Chapter 28. The phoenix -- Chapter 29. Unnaming -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- A note on sources -- Notes -- About the author.
520 $aPresents a portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, who built their fortune on the sale of Valium and later sponsored the creation and marketing of one of the most commonly prescribed and addictive painkillers of the opioid crisis.
520 $aA 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. The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama - baroque personal lives ; bitter disputes over estates ; fistfights in boardrooms ; glittering art collections ; Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers ; and the calculated use of money to burnish reputations and crush the less powerful. The Sackler name has adorned 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 institution, Arthur saw a better way and conducted groundbreaking research into drug treatments. He also had a genius for marketing, especially for pharmaceuticals, and bought a small ad firm. Arthur devised the marketing for Valium, and built the first great Sackler fortune. He purchased a drug manufacturer, Purdue Frederick, which would be run by Raymond and Mortimer. The brothers began collecting art, and wives, and grand residences in exotic locales. Their children and grandchildren grew up in luxury. Forty years later, Raymond's son Richard ran the family-owned Purdue. The template Arthur Sackler created to sell Valium - co-opting doctors, influencing the FDA, downplaying the drug's addictiveness - was employed to launch a far more potent product : OxyContin. The drug went on to generate some thirty-five billion dollars in revenue, and to launch a public health crisis in which hundreds of thousands would die. This is the saga of three generations of a single family and the mark they would leave on the world, a tale that moves from the bustling streets of early twentieth-century Brooklyn to the seaside palaces of Greenwich, Connecticut, and Cap d'Antibes to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. 'Empire of Pain' chronicles the multiple investigations of the Sacklers and their company, and the scorched-earth legal tactics that the family has used to evade accountability. 'Empire of Pain' is a masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, exhaustively documented and ferociously compelling. It is a portrait of the excesses of America's second Gilded Age, a study of impunity among the super elite and a relentless investigation of the naked greed and indifference to human suffering that built one of the world's great fortunes.
588 0 $aOnline resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed December 1, 2021).
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