{"product_id":"empire-of-pain-the-secret-history-of-the-sackler-dynasty-by-patrick-radden-keefe","title":"Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"ant-tabs ant-tabs-top ant-tabs-small ant-tabs-card itemTabs\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ant-tabs-content-holder\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ant-tabs-content ant-tabs-content-top\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv role=\"tabpanel\" class=\"ant-tabs-tabpane ant-tabs-tabpane-active\" id=\"rc-tabs-0-panel-description\" tabindex=\"0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"html htmlcolor bm-lnkin-0\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAN INSTANT \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER and EDITORS' CHOICE * WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION * NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST FOR NON-FICTION * J. ANTHONY LUKAS BOOK PRIZE FINALIST * A BARACK OBAMA FAVOURITE BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, whose fortune was built on Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eSay Nothing.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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, but the source of the family fortune was vague—until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmpire of Pain\u003c\/i\u003e 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. It follows the family’s early success with Valium to the much more potent OxyContin, marketed with a ruthless technique of co-opting doctors, influencing the FDA, and downplaying the drug’s addictiveness. \u003ci\u003eEmpire of Pain\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the multiple investigations of the Sacklers and their company, and the scorched-earth legal tactics that the family has used to evade accountability.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA masterpiece of narrative reporting, \u003ci\u003eEmpire of Pain\u003c\/i\u003e is a ferociously compelling study of impunity among the super-elite and a relentless investigation of the naked greed that built one of the world’s great fortunes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAWARDS\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e• 2022 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize short-listed\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e• 2021 National Book Critics Circle Awards short-listed\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e• 2021 The Baillie Gifford Prize winner\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Nottawa Cottage Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44401154326615,"sku":"9780385697569","price":26.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/6488\/2007\/files\/m_9_f6b392f8-78a7-47b9-b2d6-0c0df6fdcf6c.jpg?v=1790974067","url":"https:\/\/nottawacottagebookstore.ca\/products\/empire-of-pain-the-secret-history-of-the-sackler-dynasty-by-patrick-radden-keefe","provider":"Nottawa Cottage Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}