![]() ![]() ![]() 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. It is a masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, exhaustively documented and ferociously compelling. 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.Įmpire 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. Presents 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. ![]() The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing Ox圜ontin, a blockbuster painkiller that was a catalyst for the opioid crisis. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and sciences. The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions: Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. The highly anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing. ![]()
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