Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

2021 • 560 pages

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Average rating4.7

15

What a fucking fantastic book. I literally couldn't put it down - I've just been reading it non-stop for hours on end. It meticulously traces the origins of the Sackler family, and how from the start, it was always about aggressively selling and advertising medication, without a single consideration for the consequences. Actually that's wrong, they did consider the consequences, and they decided they didn't care.

On par with Killers of the Flower Moon this year for best non-fiction I've read.

August 13, 2023Report this review