Empire of Pain The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Patrick Radden Keefe

eAudio - 2021

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE NOMINEE • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author of Say Nothing The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama—baroque personal lives; bitter disputes over estates; fistfights in boardrooms; glittering art collections; Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers; and the calculated use of money to burnish reputations and crush the less powerful. The Sackler name has adorned the walls of many storied institutions—Harvard, the Metropolitan Museu...m of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and the sciences. The source of the family...

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Books on Tape
Language
English
Main Author
Patrick Radden Keefe
Online Access
OverDrive Resource Page
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MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook
File Size522 GB
Parts19
ISBN9780593162408
Release Date4/13/2021
OverDrive Listen audiobook
File Size522 GB
ISBN9780593162408
Release Date4/13/2021