Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

基本信息

Format Paperback | 640 pages

Dimensions 132 x 201 x 27mm | 442g

Publication date 18 Oct 2022

Publisher Random House USA Inc

Imprint Anchor Books

Publication City/Country New York, United States

Language English

Edition Statement Reprint

ISBN10 1984899015

ISBN13 9781984899019

书籍简介

《纽约时报》畅销书——《纽约时报》年度最佳图书--以慈善事业而闻名的萨克勒家族三代人的宏大而毁灭性的肖像，他们的财富是由安定剂创造的，他们的声誉是由奥施康定摧毁的。该书出自《什么都不说》的获奖和畅销书作者之手。

这是HBO剧集《继承》的现实版，尾巴上有一个致命的刺......是一部叙事报告文学的杰作。" ——劳拉-米勒，Slate

萨克勒王朝的历史充满了戏剧性--巴洛克式的个人生活；痛苦的遗产纠纷；董事会的拳脚相加；闪闪发光的艺术收藏；马基雅维利式的法庭演习；以及精心策划的利用金钱来提高声誉和压制弱者。萨克勒的名字已经装饰了许多著名机构的墙壁--哈佛大学、大都会艺术博物馆、牛津大学和卢浮宫。他们是世界上最富有的家族之一，但家族财富的来源却很模糊--直到人们发现，萨克勒家族负责制造和销售一种大片的止痛药，而这种药是阿片类药物危机的催化剂。

痛苦帝国》是一个家族三代人的传奇故事，也是他们留给世界的印记，这个故事从二十世纪初布鲁克林的繁华街道到康涅狄格州的格林威治和安提布角的海滨宫殿，再到华盛顿特区的权力走廊。 它遵循该家族早期在安定片上的成功，到效力更强的奥施康定，以一种无情的技术来推销，即与医生合作，影响食品和药物管理局，淡化药物的成瘾性。痛苦帝国》记录了对萨克雷家族及其公司的多次调查，以及该家族为逃避责任而采取的焦灼的法律手段。

作为叙事性报道的杰作，《痛苦帝国》是美国第二个镀金时代的一幅凶猛而引人注目的画卷，是对超级精英阶层有罪不罚现象的研究，是对建立世界上最伟大财富之一的赤裸裸的贪婪的无情调查。

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 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 bestselling author of Say Nothing.

A real-life version of the HBO series Succession with a lethal sting in its tail...a masterful work of narrative reportage." - Laura Miller, Slate

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, but the source of the family fortune was vague--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 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. It follows the family's early success with Valium to the much more potent OxyContin, marketed with a ruthless technique of co-opting doctors, influencing the FDA, downplaying the drug's addictiveness. 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.

A masterpiece of narrative reporting, Empire of Pain is a ferociously compelling portrait of America's second Gilded Age, a study of impunity among the super-elite and a relentless investigation of the naked greed that built one of the world's great fortunes.

作者简介

帕特里克-拉登-基夫是《纽约客》杂志的工作人员，最近的作品是《纽约时报》畅销书《什么都不要说》。该书获得了美国国家书评人协会非小说奖，被《纽约时报书评》、《华盛顿邮报》、《芝加哥论坛报》和《华尔街日报》选为2019年十本最佳图书之一，并被《娱乐周刊》评为十年来十本最佳非小说书之一。他以前的书有《蛇头》和《喋血》。他的作品得到了古根海姆奖学金、国家杂志特写奖和奥威尔政治写作奖的认可。他也是八集播客《变革之风》的创建者和主持人。

Patrick Radden Keefeÿis a staff writer atÿThe New Yorkerÿ and the author, most recently, of theÿNew York TimesÿbestsellerÿSay Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, was selected as one of the ten best books of 2019 byÿTheÿNew York Times Book Review,ÿTheÿWashington Post,ÿtheÿChicago TribuneÿandÿTheÿWall Street Journal, and was named one of the 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade byÿEntertainment Weekly. His previous books areÿThe SnakeheadÿandÿChatter. His work has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing and theÿOrwellÿPrize for Political Writing. He is also the creator and host of the eight-part podcastÿWind of Change.