Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty / Patrick Radden Keefe.

By:

Keefe, Patrick Radden, 1976- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : Picador, 2021Edition: First editionDescription: xii, 535 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781529063073 (pbk.)
9780385545686
0385545681

Other title:

Secret history of the Sackler dynasty

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DDC classification:

338.7/616151092273 KEE B 23 018615

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"--

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	338.7616151092273 KEE 018615 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		018615

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"--

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