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Tag: ["Biography", "💀", "💉", "🇺🇸"]
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Date: 2022-10-10
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DocType: "Source"
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Hierarchy: "NonRoot"
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Type: "Book"
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Author: "Patrick Radden Keefe"
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Language: EN
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Published: 2021-05-13
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Link: "https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/patrick-radden-keefe/empire-of-pain/9781529062489"
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Read:
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Cover: "https://www.greatescapebooks.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Empire-of-Pain-510x785.jpeg"
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Parent:: [[@Reading master|Reading list]]
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ReadingState:: In progress
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```button
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name Edit Source parameters
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type command
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action MetaEdit: Run MetaEdit
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id EditMetaData
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```
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^button-SourceEdit
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```button
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name Save
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type command
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action Save current file
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id Save
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```
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^button-TNSave
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# Empire of Pain
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> [!summary]+
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>**Winner of the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction**
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>  
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**One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2021**
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**Goodreads Choice Awards 2021: Winner, Memoir & Autobiography**
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>  
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> **_Empire of Pain_ is the story of a dynasty: a parable of 21st century greed**
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>  
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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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>  
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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
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**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.**
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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.
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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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```toc
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style: number
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### Cover
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```dataviewjs
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dv.el("span", "![](" + dv.current().Source.Cover + ")")
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```
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### Notes
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Loret ipsum
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