Empire Of Pain
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 Museum 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 fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis. Empire of Pain begins with the story of three doctor brothers, Raymond, Mortimer and the incalculably energetic Arthur, who weathered the poverty of the Great Depression and appalling anti-Semitism. Working at a barbaric mental institution, Arthur saw a better way and conducted groundbreaking research into drug treatments. He also had a genius for marketing, especially for pharmaceuticals, and bought a small ad firm. Arthur devised the marketing for Valium, and built the first great Sackler fortune. He purchased a drug manufacturer, Purdue Frederick, which would be run by Raymond and Mortimer. The brothers began collecting art, and wives, and grand residences in exotic locales. Their children and grandchildren grew up in luxury. Forty years later, Raymond’s son Richard ran the family-owned Purdue. The template Arthur Sackler created to sell Valium—co-opting doctors, influencing the FDA, downplaying the drug’s addictiveness—was employed to launch a far more potent product: OxyContin. The drug went on to generate some thirty-five billion dollars in revenue, and to launch a public health crisis in which hundreds of thousands would die. 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. Empire 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. Empire of Pain is a masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, exhaustively documented and ferociously compelling. It is 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.
Empire Of Pain
Winner of the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the 2021 Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021 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 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, award-winning journalist and host of the Wind of Change podcast Patrick Radden Keefe exhaustively documents the jaw-dropping and ferociously compelling reality. Empire of Pain is the story of a dynasty: a parable of twenty-first-century greed.
Rogues
Rogues brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from the New Yorker. As Keefe observes in his preface: 'They reflect on some of my abiding preoccupations: crime and corruption, secrets and lies, the permeable membrane separating licit and illicit worlds, the bonds of family, the power of denial.'Keefe explores the intricacies of forging $150,000 vintage wines; examines whether a whistleblower who dared to expose money laundering at a Swiss bank is a hero or a fabulist; spends time in Vietnam with Anthony Bourdain; chronicles the quest to bring down a cheerful international black-market arms merchant; and profiles a passionate death-penalty attorney who represents the 'worst of the worst', among other bravura works of literary journalism.The appearance of his byline in the New Yorker is always an event; collected here for the first time readers can see how his work forms an always enthralling yet also deeply human portrait of criminals and rascals, as well as those who stand up to them.
Rogues
Patrick Radden Keefe's work has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US to the Orwell Prize in the UK for his meticulously reported, hypnotically engaging work on the many ways people behave badly. Rogues brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from the New Yorker. As Keefe says in his preface: 'They reflect on some of my abiding preoccupations: crime and corruption, secrets and lies, the permeable membrane separating licit and illicit worlds, the bonds of family, the power of denial.'Keefe brilliantly explores the intricacies of forging $150,000 vintage wines, examines whether a whistleblower who dared to expose money laundering at a Swiss bank is a hero or a fabulist, spends time in Vietnam with Anthony Bourdain, chronicles the quest to bring down a cheerful international black-market arms merchant, and profiles a passionate death-penalty attorney who represents the 'worst of the worst', among other bravura works of literary journalism.The appearance of his byline in the New Yorker is always an event, and collected here for the first time readers can see his work forms an always enthralling but deeply human portrait of criminals and rascals, as well as those who stand up against them.
Say Nothing
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY Now an FX TV series streaming on DISNEY+ 'Unquestionably one of the greatest literary achievements of the 21st century' Nick Hornby From the author of Empire of Pain - a s...
Empire of Pain
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 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. 'A real-life version of the HBO series Succession with a lethal sting in its tail...a masterful work of narrative reportage.' - Laura Miller, Slate 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 Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, but the source of the family fortune was vague--until it emerged
Säg Inget - En Sann Historia Om Mord Och Terror På Nordirland
I december 1972 blir den 38-åriga änkan Jean McConville kidnappad i sitt hem i Belfast av ett maskerat gäng, med hennes barn som vittnen. De tio barnen återser henne aldrig och det ouppklarade mordet på Jean McConville blir snart ett av de mest omtalade brotten på Nordirland, ett för alltid öppet sår i den konflikt som brukar kallas "The Troubles".Patrick Radden Keefes "Säg inget" är en andlöst spännande genomgång av konfliktens olika aktörer och turer, och samtidigt en detektivgåta som leder rakt in i hjärtat på IRA. Boken har hyllats som både banbrytande true crime och som mästerlig skildring av en konflikt vars efterverkningar än idag påverkar Europa.
Snakehead
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 'Reads like a mashup of The Godfather and Chinatown, complete with gun battles, a ruthless kingpin and a mountain of cash. Except that it's all true.' - Time In this thrilling story of real-l...
Smärtans imperium : berättelsen om familjen Sackler och opioidkrisen
"Lysande om hur girighet, grupptänkande och människors önskan att bli smärtfria skapade en hälsokatastrof av bibliska proportioner." - Anders Hansen "Patrick Radden Keefe slog igenom med "Säg inget", om konflikten på Nordirland. Nu är han tillbaka med en knivskarp skildring av de yttersta konsekvenserna av hänsynslös kapitalism och korruption." Malin Persson Giolito Länge prydde
Smärtans imperium : Berättelsen om familjen Sackler och opioidkrisen
'Lysande om hur girighet, grupptänkande och människors önskan att bli smärtfria skapade en hälsokatastrof av bibliska proportioner.' - Anders Hansen 'Patrick Radden Keefe slog igenom med 'Sa¨g inget', om konflikten pa° Nordirland. Nu a¨r han tillbaka med en knivskarp skildring av de yttersta konsekvenserna av ha¨nsynslo¨s kapitalism och korruption.' Malin Persson Giolito Länge prydde namnet Sackler väggarna på världens mest prestigefyllda universitet och museum. Tack vare sina stora donationer förknippades den stenrika dynastin med ärevördiga institutioner som Harvard, Oxford och Louvren. Vad som skapat förmögenheten var inte lika känt. Men när det stod klart att familjens företag Purdue Pharma låg bakom det smärtstillande läkemedlet Oxycontin hamnade namnet Sackler i mediernas fokus. Sedan 1999 har mer än en halv miljon människor dött i den så kallade opioidkrisen – vilket ansvar bar de som hade producerat och berikat sig på det preparat som drivit på epidemin? I den hyllade Smärtans
