{"product_id":"empire-of-pain-the-secret-history-of-the-sackler-dynasty","title":"Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e BESTSELLER ‚Ä¢ A \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR ‚Ä¢ 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSay Nothing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"A real-life version of the HBO series \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSuccession\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e with a lethal sting in its tail‚Ķa masterful work of narrative reportage.‚Äù ‚Äì Laura Miller, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSlate\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama‚Äîbaroque 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‚ÄîHarvard, 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‚Äîuntil 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\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEmpire of Pain\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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‚ÄôAntibes to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. It follows the family‚Äôs early success with Valium to the much more potent OxyContin, marketed with a ruthless technique of co-opting doctors, influencing the FDA, downplaying the drug‚Äôs addictiveness. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEmpire of Pain\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEmpire of Pain\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a ferociously compelling portrait of America‚Äôs second Gilded Age, a study of impunity among the super-elite and a relentless investigation of the naked greed that built one of the world‚Äôs great fortunes.\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" style=\"opacity: 1; display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content-fade\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"javascript:void(0)\" role=\"button\" data-action=\"a-expander-toggle\" class=\"a-declarative\" data-a-expander-toggle='{\"allowLinkDefault\":true, \"expand_prompt\":\"Read more\", \"collapse_prompt\":\"Read less\"}'\u003e\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eRead more\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50521213600029,"sku":"9781984899019","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9781984899019.jpg?v=1761145803","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/empire-of-pain-the-secret-history-of-the-sackler-dynasty","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}