Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Resumen del libro

Longlisted for the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionLonglisted for the 2021 FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award*A Barack Obama 2021 Summer reading list recommendation*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. 'Jaw-dropping . .

. Beggars belief' - Sunday Times'You feel almost guilty for enjoying it so much' - The TimesThe 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 blockbuster painkiller that was a catalyst for the opioid crisis - an international epidemic of drug addiction which has killed nearly half a million people. In this masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, Patrick Radden Keefe exhaustively documents the jaw-dropping and ferociously compelling reality. Empire of Pain is the story of a dynasty: a parable of 21st century greed.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Patrick Radden Keefex{0026}lt;/B es periodista en plantilla de x{0026}lt;I The New Yorkerx{0026}lt;/I y autor de varios libros de no ficción: x{0026}lt;I Chatter x{0026}lt;/I (2006), x{0026}lt;I The Snakeheadx{0026}lt;/I (2009), x{0026}lt;I No digas nadax{0026}lt;/I (2019, merecedor del National Book Critics Circle Award y el Orwell Prize) y x{0026}lt;I El imperio del dolorx{0026}lt;/I (2021), ganadora del Baillie Gifford Award, el más prestigioso premio de no ficción del Reino Unido. Ha publicado artículos en x{0026}lt;I The New York Times Magazinex{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Slatex{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I The New York Review of Booksx{0026}lt;/I . En 2014 recibió el National Magazine Award en la categoría de crónica por A Loaded Gun y fue finalista del mismo premio en la categoría de reportaje en los años 2015 y 2016. Asimismo, es creador y narrador del podcast en ocho capítulos x{0026}lt;I Wind of Changex{0026}lt;/I (2020).x{0026}lt;/P