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# Empire of Pain

 

> [!summary]+
>**Winner of the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction**
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**One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2021**  
**Goodreads Choice Awards 2021: Winner, Memoir & Autobiography**
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>  **_Empire of Pain_ is the story of a dynasty: a parable of 21st century greed**
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'One of those authors I will always read, no matter what the subject matter, which is why I gobbled up _Empire of Pain . . ._ a masterclass in compelling narrative nonfiction.' – Elizabeth Day, _The_ _Guardian_ '30 Best Summer Reads'
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'If you haven’t read it already, you really should. I’ve been thinking about it nonstop ever since I finished it.' – Malcolm Gladwell
 
**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 family is one of the richest in the world, and their name adorns the walls of many famous institutions – Harvard; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Oxford; the Louvre. The source of the family fortune was vague, 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, award-winning journalist and host of the Wind of Change podcast Patrick Radden Keefe exhaustively documents the jaw-dropping and ferociously compelling reality.

 

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