SUMMARY Of Empire Of Pain: The Secret History Of The Sackler Dynasty

By Francis Thomas

Empire Of Pain By Patrick Radden Keefe

In Empire of Pain (2021), Patrick Radden Keefe narrates how the Sackler family, over three generations, grew from immigrant newcomers to wealthy philanthropists and ultimately the people behind a drug that ended up killing thousands of Americans.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: BookSummaryGr
• Release date: Sep 11, 2023
• ISBN: 9781088298916

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SUMMARY

Empire of Pain

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Patrick Radden Keefe

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

1  A Good Name

2  The Asylum

3  Med Man

4  Penicillin for the Blues

5  China Fever

6  The Octopus

7  The Dendur Derby

8  Estrangement

9  Ghost Marks

10  To Thwart the Inevitability of Death

11  Apollo

12  Heir Apparent

13  Matter of Sackler

14  The Ticking Clock

15  God of Dreams

16  H-Bomb

17  Sell, Sell, Sell

18  Ann Hedonia

19  The Pablo Escobar of the New Millennium

20  Take the Fall

21  Turks

22  Tamperproof

23  Ambassadors

24  It’s a Hard Truth, Ain’t It

25  Temple of Greed

26  Warpath

27  Named Defendants

28  The Phoenix

29  Un-naming

Conclusion

Introduction

In Empire of Pain (2021), Patrick Radden Keefe narrates how the Sackler family, over three generations, grew from immigrant newcomers to wealthy philanthropists and ultimately