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Empire of Pain
- The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
- Narrado por: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Duración: 18 h y 6 m
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National Book Critics Circle Nominee
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
New York Times best seller
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. From the prize-winning and best-selling author of Say Nothing
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. 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 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 35 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 20th-century Brooklyn to the seaside palaces of Greenwich, Connecticut, and Cap d’Antibes to the corridors of power in Washington, DC. 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.
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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New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of the Year • One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of the Year • TIME Magazine 100 Must Read Books of 2021 • One the Best Books of the Year: NPR, Slate, EW, Boston Globe, Goodreads, The Guardian, Town & Country, BuzzFeed, LitHub, Vulture, and more
Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction and Finalist for the Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners Award
One of President Obama's Favorite Books of the Year
“An engrossing (and frequently enraging) tale of striving, secrecy and self-delusion….Keefe nimbly guides us through the thicket of family intrigues and betrayals… Even when detailing the most sordid episodes, Keefe’s narrative voice is calm and admirably restrained, allowing his prodigious reporting to speak for itself. His portrait of the family is all the more damning for its stark lucidity.”—Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times
“I read everything he writes. Every time he writes a book, I read it. Every time he writes an article, I read it … he’s a national treasure.”—Rachel Maddow, host of MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” and author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Blowout
“A true tragedy in multiple acts. It is the story of a family that lost its moorings and its morals… Written with novelistic family-dynasty and family-dynamic sweep, EMPIRE OF PAIN is a pharmaceutical FORSYTHE SAGA, a book that in its way is addictive, with a page-turning forward momentum.”—David M. Shribman, The Boston Globe
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The worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history began a half hour before midnight on June 8, 1917, when fire broke out in the North Butte Mining Company's Granite Mountain shaft. Sparked more than 2,000 feet below ground, the fire spewed flames, smoke, and poisonous gas through a labyrinth of underground tunnels. Within an hour more than 400 men would be locked in a battle to survive. Within three days 164 of them would be dead.
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Fairly Solid Book With Good History
- De Matthew en 08-18-16
De: Michael Punke
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How the Earth Works
- De: Michael E. Wysession, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Michael E. Wysession
- Duración: 24 h y 31 m
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How the Earth Works takes you on an astonishing journey through time and space. In 48 lectures, you will look at what went into making our planet - from the big bang, to the formation of the solar system, to the subsequent evolution of Earth.
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Excellent course
- De Doug B. en 05-23-19
De: Michael E. Wysession, y otros
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Our Oriental Heritage
- The Story of Civilization, Volume 1
- De: Will Durant
- Narrado por: Robin Field
- Duración: 50 h y 17 m
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The first volume of Will Durant's Pulitzer Prize-winning series, Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization, Volume I chronicles the early history of Egypt, the Middle East, and Asia.
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Wonderful
- De Michael en 11-30-13
De: Will Durant
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The Power of the Dog
- De: Don Winslow
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 20 h y 13 m
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This explosive novel of the drug trade takes you deep inside a world riddled with corruption, betrayal, and bloody revenge. From the streets of New York City to Mexico City and Tijuana to the jungles of Central America, this is the war on drugs like you've never seen it.
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Gripping Drama
- De Deborah en 01-06-11
De: Don Winslow
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American Heiress
- The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
- De: Jeffrey Toobin
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
- Duración: 15 h y 25 m
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On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress to the Hearst family fortune, was kidnapped by a ragtag group of self-styled revolutionaries calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army. The already sensational story took the first of many incredible twists on April 3, when the group released a tape of Patty saying she had joined the SLA and had adopted the nom de guerre “Tania.”
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Privilege calling privilege privileged
- De Kelley en 08-05-16
De: Jeffrey Toobin
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The Captive Mind
- De: Czeslaw Milosz, Jane Zielonko - translator, Claire Bloom - director
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 9 h
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The best-known prose work by the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature examines the moral and intellectual conflicts faced by men and women living under totalitarianism of the left or right. Written in the early 1950s, when Eastern Europe was in the grip of Stalinism and many Western intellectuals placed their hopes in the new order of the East, this classic work reveals in fascinating detail the often beguiling allure of totalitarian rule to people of all political beliefs and its frightening effects on the minds of those who embrace it.
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Every U.S. citizen should read this.
- De Tim Christenson en 09-27-20
De: Czeslaw Milosz, y otros
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Eat a Peach
- A Memoir
- De: David Chang, Gabe Ulla
- Narrado por: David Chang
- Duración: 9 h y 6 m
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From the chef behind Momofuku and star of Netflix’s Ugly Delicious—an intimate account of the making of a chef, the story of the modern restaurant world that he helped shape, and how he discovered that success can be much harder to understand than failure. Full of grace, candor, grit, and humor, Eat a Peach chronicles David Chang’s switchback path. Along the way, Chang gives us a penetrating look at restaurant life, in which he balances his deep love for the kitchen with unflinching honesty about the industry’s history of brutishness and its uncertain future.
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So many threads coming into a wonderful tapstery.
- De Suzie en 09-12-20
De: David Chang, y otros
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The Mosquito
- A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
- De: Timothy C. Winegard
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 19 h y 7 m
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Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice for British colonists in India and Africa? What does Starbucks have to thank for its global domination? What has protected the lives of popes for millennia? Why did Scotland surrender its sovereignty to England? What was George Washington's secret weapon during the American Revolution? The answer to all these questions, and many more, is the mosquito. Driven by surprising insights and fast-paced storytelling, The Mosquito is the extraordinary untold story of the mosquito’s reign through human history.
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Major Disappointment
- De Amazon Customer en 09-02-19
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Apostle
- Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve
- De: Tom Bissell
- Narrado por: Tom Bissell
- Duración: 14 h y 17 m
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A profound and moving journey into the heart of Christianity that explores the mysterious and often paradoxical lives and legacies of the Twelve Apostles—a book both for those of the faith and for others who seek to understand Christianity from the outside in.
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Not What It Appears To Be
- De M. hooper en 09-18-18
De: Tom Bissell
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Return of a King
- The Battle for Afghanistan
- De: William Dalrymple
- Narrado por: Sagar Arya
- Duración: 20 h y 17 m
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In the spring of 1839, Britain invaded Afghanistan for the first time. Nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the high mountain passes and re-established on the throne Shah Shuja ul-Mulk. On the way in, the British faced little resistance. But after two years of occupation, the Afghan people rose in answer to the call for jihad and the country exploded into violent rebellion. The First Anglo-Afghan War ended in Britain's greatest military humiliation of the 19th century.
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Read the hard copy
- De Gina Czupka en 11-28-23
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The Ragged Edge of Night
- De: Olivia Hawker
- Narrado por: Nick Sandys, Olivia Hawker
- Duración: 11 h y 40 m
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Germany, 1942. Franciscan friar Anton Starzmann is stripped of his place in the world when his school is seized by the Nazis. He relocates to a small German hamlet to wed Elisabeth Herter, a widow who seeks a marriage - in name only - to a man who can help raise her three children. Anton seeks something too - atonement for failing to protect his young students from the wrath of the Nazis. But neither he nor Elisabeth expects their lives to be shaken once again by the inescapable rumble of war.
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The Ragged Edge of Night must be made into a movie
- De M. King en 10-04-18
De: Olivia Hawker
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The Violin Conspiracy
- A Novel (Good Morning America Book Club)
- De: Brendan Slocumb
- Narrado por: JD Jackson, Brendan Slocumb
- Duración: 12 h y 4 m
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Growing up Black in rural North Carolina, Ray McMillian’s life is already mapped out. But Ray has a gift and a dream—he’s determined to become a world-class professional violinist, and nothing will stand in his way. Not his mother, who wants him to stop making such a racket; not the fact that he can’t afford a violin suitable to his talents; not even the racism inherent in the world of classical music.
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Enjoyable But Flawed
- De woodbridge98 en 02-12-22
De: Brendan Slocumb
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Click Here to Kill Everybody
- Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World
- De: Bruce Schneier
- Narrado por: Roger Wayne
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
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Everything is a computer. Ovens are computers that make things hot; refrigerators are computers that keep things cold. These computers - from home thermostats to chemical plants - are all online. All computers can be hacked. And Internet-connected computers are the most vulnerable. Forget data theft: Cutting-edge digital attackers can now crash your car, your pacemaker, and the nation’s power grid. In Click Here to Kill Everybody, renowned expert and best-selling author Bruce Schneier examines the hidden risks of this new reality.
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Same old Bruce
- De Fausto Cepeda en 04-03-19
De: Bruce Schneier
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Against the Grain
- A Deep History of the Earliest States
- De: James C. Scott
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
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Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains and governed by precursors of today's states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle down and form agricultural villages, towns, and states, which made possible civilization, law, public order, and a presumably secure way of living. But archaeological and historical evidence challenges this narrative.
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World without Women
- De Paul Richards en 04-28-18
De: James C. Scott
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Burn the Ice
- The American Culinary Revolution and Its End
- De: Kevin Alexander
- Narrado por: Holter Graham
- Duración: 10 h y 29 m
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Over the past decade, Kevin Alexander saw American dining turned on its head. Starting in 2006, the food world underwent a transformation as the established gatekeepers of American culinary creativity in New York City and the Bay Area were forced to contend with Portland, Oregon. Its new, no-holds-barred, casual fine-dining style became a template for other cities, and a culinary revolution swept across America. Traditional ramen shops opened in Oklahoma City. Craft cocktail speakeasies appeared in Boise. Poke bowls sprung up in Omaha.
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Amazing read
- De JC Final en 10-27-23
De: Kevin Alexander
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The Sellout
- A Novel
- De: Paul Beatty
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
- Duración: 9 h y 35 m
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A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality: the black Chinese restaurant.
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Appreciated it, but didn't like it
- De Eugenia en 04-14-16
De: Paul Beatty
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Empire of Pain
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- Nina Jacobson
- 04-20-21
Unputdownable
You won't find a better reporter or storyteller than Patrick Radden Keefe. I was spellbound from the first page.
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- L. Gronet
- 04-21-21
Excellent!
Great writing and investigating. This family is beyond evil, and now I know the FDA is too!
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- Xavier
- 04-20-21
Excellent
This and his book on the troubles, Say Nothing, are excellently reported and well written.
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- Paul A. Hinenburg
- 05-06-21
Greed , and evilOn display
Well in 1900 the Sacklers would have built a cottage in Newport, raced for the America Cup, built. Mansion on Fifth Avenue: all on the back of pioneering a major industry; and in the 21st Century they accomplished much the same by moving the likes of the SinaLoa drug cartel to the East Coast of the United States with headquarters in Connecticut, When the death toll of ~500,000 give or take, related to successful marketing of their product seemed ominous, the Sackler clan moved the bulk of their monies off shore and then successfully proved innocence is for sale in this “nation of laws “! ; as they reiterated their skills at the subversion of Federal Agencies, Judges and the like while keeping the bulk of their blood money: the price 500,000 permanently dead, millions permanently addicted, the Sackler name temporarily besmirched.
Easy though very disturbing reading in journalistic style and you can tell the author to have really had their heart in this work .
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- H. Carey
- 02-08-22
Lots of Facts, No Real Explanations
It was a tough listen, for a couple reasons. I have many personal relationships with family and friends addicted to opioids. The whole thing is tragic. Through the book I think I was looking for something more, an explanation rather than just the blame game on the Sacklers. By the end I was trying to speed through the book, I felt like fact after fact and I had gotten his point, it didn’t need to drone on. The authors narration was not helping me either, his tone of voice made the book sound gossipy and righteous.
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- stephan
- 05-07-21
An amazing deep dive into the Sackler family
It’s amazing to realize that the wealth these people built has prevented them from being punished in a more meaningful way. The bankruptcy judge seems to be on the family side and that’s sickening.
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- S.
- 05-29-21
This is a 6 star book - a Pulitzer
This is a fantaistic book - the writing is superb, the reserach excellent, the structure of the book outstanding (which is saying something consdiering the length of time it covers and the complexity of the topic), and his narration excellent. I rarely ever listen to a book performed by its author, they are usually awful, but I heard Mr. Keefe interviewed on Fresh Air so I took a chance.
I cannot say enough great things about this book - Mr. Keefe deserves a Pulitzer for this one. Congratulations.
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- elizabeth skane
- 06-20-21
A story I never knew.
Wow this book is enthralling. I never knew this story. And found it fascinating from beginning to end.
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- oldmanwagner
- 06-13-21
As Vile as One Might Imagine
I remember the first time I heard about OxyContin, it was about 2000, and I was reading an article about this “hillbilly heroin” that was prescribed by doctors, highly addictive, and ruined lives. A few weeks later, I’d know some folks who enjoyed it recreationally. This was in Florida, at the beginning (then height) of the pill mill party. I always wondered how such a nasty drug could find it’s way into medicine. Now I know.
A fascinating and enraging book that underscores my own goals to never use/accept opiates. They’re vile and the folks that peddle them are worse.
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- Lynpatters
- 06-12-22
The generational evil is Inconceivable
This evil drug-baron family calculatingly hides behind their narcissistic guise of philanthropy. In the big picture, it is eye opening how big Parma manipulates the masses, but the case study of the Sackler dynasty is deeply alarming and infuriating. I found the Empire of Pain very painful indeed because there was corruption on so many levels, not just with the family, their sales reps and lawyers, but with every level of government including the bought-off FDA snd CDC. I felt like I was living in a nightmare with no resolve or redemption. The bad guys just kept winning. There’s probably not a family in America that hasn’t had heartbreak due to the opioid pandemic, and we can lay that blame squarely at the feet of the well-orchestrated, drug-peddling Sackler campaign. The only satisfaction is that their names were taken off so many of the prestigious halls of art and science, and that they were finally exposed, even though justice was not served—they truly got away with murder, hundreds of thousands of murders. This is an important story. Thank you, Mr. Keffe, for the tremendous rigor it took to tell it.
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