![]() ![]() More About the Book: The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama, from baroque personal lives to 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: Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. We are no longer taking reservations, but anticipate that some seating or standing room will be available the evening of the event. Keefe will be in conversation with reporter Noah Kirsch. 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. Empire of Pain is a masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, exhaustively documented and ferociously compelling. In celebration of the paperback release of Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, we are hosting award-winning author Patrick Radden Keefe! This New York Times bestseller is a grand, but devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium, and reputation destroyed by Ox圜ontin. ![]()
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