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100 1  Keefe, Patrick Radden. 
245 10 Empire of pain|h[OverDrive/Libby electronic resource]|bThe
       secret history of the sackler dynasty.|cPatrick Radden 
       Keefe. 
250    Unabridged. 
260    New York :|bRandom House Audio,|c2021. 
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511 0  Narrator: Patrick Radden Keefe. 
520    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, by the prize-winning, bestselling 
       author of  Say   Nothing       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 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. 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.         
       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. 
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