![]() 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. ![]() He also had a genius for marketing, especially for pharmaceuticals, and bought a small ad firm.Įmpire of Pain is a masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, exhaustively documented and ferociously compelling. Working at a barbaric mental institution, Arthur saw a better way and conducted groundbreaking research into drug treatments. 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.Įmpire 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. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and the sciences. Author Patrick Radden Keefe wrote a book profiling the Sackler family called Empire of Pain: The Secret History Of The Sackler Dynasty that was one of the biggest of the year. Summary: The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions-Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford. ![]() The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions-Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. ![]()
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