The highly-anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, 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 in the arts and the sciences. The sou...
The highly-anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, 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 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, Patrick Radden Keefe exhaustively documents the jaw-dropping and ferociously compelling reality. Empire of Pain is the story of a dynasty: a parable of 21st century greed.
Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, as well as two previous critically-acclaimed books, The Snakehead, and Chatter. He is the recipient of the 2014 National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Reporting in 2...
Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, as well as two previous critically-acclaimed books, The Snakehead, and Chatter. He is the recipient of the 2014 National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Reporting in 2015 and 2016, and also received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He grew up in Boston and now lives in New York
But it is also true that people who achieve a certain level of wealth and professional renown often tend, at a certain point, to start buying art. Perhaps this mode of acquisition is an effort to silence some inner doubt about their own place in the culture, or perhaps it merely represents a new realm to be conquered. (查看原文)
But Arthur and his brothers were born into what has been described as the golden age of American medicine, a period during the early twentieth century when the efficacy of medicine—and the credibility of the medical profession—were greatly enhanced by new scientific discoveries about the sources of various illnesses and the best means of treating them. (查看原文)
At 50,000 overdose deaths a year and rising, America’s opioid crisis has never been worse. What began in the late 1990s as an epidemic of prescription pain-pill abuse morphed into a worse one of illicit heroin and, later, fentanyl. Prosecutors and the publ...
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Before reading this book, I had always viewed the opioid crisis through the eyes of its victims. This was the first time I saw the blueprints, the essential institutions, and the intricate labyrinth of power behind it. Like the book’s title suggests, it re...
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0 有用 tutu 2022-01-13 02:00:17
大开眼界！来读读富贾家族是怎么贪污蒙骗、草菅人命、为所欲为的。
2 有用 辛维木 2021-06-09 09:06:36
硬核非虚构，求引进（本来想毛遂自荐翻译的，但没时间）！想到以前听一位喜欢定体问的老师说，一个社会如果很多人要用鸦片来麻痹痛苦，那肯定是这个社会有什么问题……23333
1 有用 del 2021-04-29 15:09:41
😱️😨️😰️😭️🤐️👿️😒️😔️。
0 有用 Alice雷 2021-05-08 11:14:14
archaeology & pharmaceutical，刚好是我们家里两个人的领域，所以对实际黑操作并不陌生。只是sackler鼎鼎大名只要是东亚相关大概都听过，绝对没想过是这样发家的。不过解释了我个人一直以来的疑问，也就是为什么实际踏进他的博物馆却觉得馆藏并没有那么牛，原来如此造神的结果？读完更好奇Getty的发家史了
0 有用 菲利普吗喽 2021-07-30 11:10:20
听完觉得需要去补一下自由市场经济相关知识。广告宣传和药品两方面监管的不作为，放任sackler家族积累了巨额的合法毒资，给美国社会带来了安定和羟考酮两波绵延数十年的毒瘾。sackler家族对金钱的欲望毋庸置疑是人性恶的一面，堪称魔鬼在人间的代言人，但放任社会性药物滥用至此，也是美国独立于世界其他所有国家的一个奇景了。ps，疼痛管理就是bullshit，卖处方毒品的幌子。