Empire of pain :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
xviii, 620 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 21 cm
Edition
First Anchor Books edition
Production / Publication Information
New York : Anchor Books, 2022.
Summary
"The Sackler name has adorned 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, OxyContin, that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis. 'Empire of Pain' 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. The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama--baroque personal lives; bitter disputes; fistfights in boardrooms; glittering art collections; Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers; and the calculated use of money to burnish reputations and crush dissent. 'Empire of Pain' is a masterpiece of narrative reporting--a grand, devastating portrait of the excesses of America's second Gilded Age, a study of impunity among the super elite, and an investigation of the naked greed and indifference to human suffering that built one of the world's great fortunes." --back cover
Call Number
BIO/SACKLER FAMILY
Publication Date
2021-2022
Language
English
ISBN
9781984899019
Empire of pain :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
xii, 535 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition
First edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York : Doubleday, [2021]
Summary
Presents a portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, who built their fortune on the sale of Valium and later sponsored the creation and marketing of one of the most commonly prescribed and addictive painkillers of the opioid crisis.
Call Number
338.4761 KEE
Publication Date
2021
Language
English
ISBN
9780385545686
Empire of pain :
Author
Format:
Large print
Physical Description
974 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition
First large print edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York : Random House Large Print, [2021]
Summary
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. 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. -- jacket.
Call Number
LT 929 SACKLER 2021
Publication Date
2021
Language
English
ISBN
9780593416280
El imperio del dolor :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
686 pages ; 23 cm
Production / Publication Information
[Barcelona] : Reservoir Books, 2021.
Summary
"El apellido Sackler adorna los muros de las instituciones más distinguidas: Harvard, el Metropolitan, Oxford, el Louvre... Es una de las familias más ricas del mundo, benefactora de las artes y las ciencias. El origen de su patrimonio siempre fue dudoso, hasta que salió a la luz que lo habían multiplicado gracias a OxyContin, un potente analgésico que catalizó la crisis de los opioides en Estados Unidos. El imperio del dolor empieza en la Gran Depresión, con la historia de tres hermanos dedicados a la medicina: Raymond, Mortimer y el infatigable Arthur Sackler, dotado de una visión especial para la publicidad y el marketing. Años después, contribuyó a la primera fortuna familiar ideando la estrategia comercial de Valium, un revolucionario tranquilizante, para una gran farmacéutica. Tras unas décadas fue Richard Sackler, el hijo de Raymond, quien pasó a dirigir los negocios del clan, incluida Purdue Pharma, su propia empresa fabricante de medicamentos. Basándose en las tácticas agresivas de su tío Arthur para vender el Valium, lanzó un fármaco que había de ser definitivo: OxyContin. Con él ganaron miles de millones de dólares, pero terminaría por arruinar su reputación. Desde 2017, Patrick Radden Keefe ha investigado los secretos de la dinastía Sackler: las complicadas relaciones familiares, los flujos de dinero, sus dudosas prácticas corporativas... El resultado es una bomba periodística que relata el auge y declive de una de las grandes familias americanas y su oscuro emporio de la salud"--
Call Number
SP 338.476 KEE
Publication Date
2021
Language
Spanish
ISBN
9788418052491
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