{"product_id":"empire-of-pain-patrick-radden-keefe","title":"Empire of Pain (Patrick Radden Keefe)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe shocking story of three generations of the Sackler family and their roles in the stories of Valium, OxyContin and the opioid crisis. The inspiration behind the Netflix series \u003ci\u003ePainkiller\u003c\/i\u003e, starring Uzo Aduba and Matthew Broderick.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller\u003cbr\u003eA BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I gobbled up \u003ci\u003eEmpire of Pain . . .\u003c\/i\u003e a masterclass in compelling narrative nonfiction.' - Elizabeth Day, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian \u003c\/i\u003e'30 Best Summer Reads'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions like Harvard and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations in 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 Oxycontin. A blockbuster painkiller that was a catalyst for the opioid crisis - an international epidemic of drug addiction which has killed nearly half a million people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, award-winning journalist and author of \u003ci\u003eSay Nothing \u003c\/i\u003e(now streaming on Disney+), Patrick Radden Keefe, exhaustively documents the jaw-dropping reality. \u003ci\u003eEmpire of Pain\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a dynasty, and twenty-first-century greed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'There are so many \"they did what?\" moments in this book, when your jaw practically hits the page' - \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'You feel almost guilty for enjoying it so much' - \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePatrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of \u003ci\u003eEmpire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction) and \u003ci\u003eSay Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland \u003c\/i\u003e(winner of the Orwell prize and now streaming on Disney+), as well as two critically-acclaimed books, \u003ci\u003eThe Snakehead\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eChatter\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the writer and host of the eight-part podcast \u003ci\u003eWind of Change\u003c\/i\u003e on the origins of the Scorpions' power ballad, which \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e named the #1 podcast of 2020. He is the recipient of the 2014 National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Reporting in 2015 and 2016, and also received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He grew up in Boston and now lives in New York.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 560 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65802458988893,"sku":"K095118814","price":13.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9511881400001A.jpg?v=1788458391","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/empire-of-pain-patrick-radden-keefe","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}