They’re doing something extraordinary and it’s admirable at the start.” Read more. Against all the odds the three boys, the first generation, all become doctors. It’s an immigrant family, Russian Jewish. What he does is go back and look at the origins of the company, Purdue Pharma. It’s about the Sackler scandal, this family that’s made a fortune out of Oxycontin, this very, very addictive opioid that’s killed more Americans than have died in all the wars the country has fought since the Second World War. And because he has a very transparent style-he’s a New Yorker staff writer-and it’s not fancy, it’s very easy to say, ‘Well, he just had to research it and write it down.’ But no, it’s incredibly beautifully done. There’s incredible artistry in putting this story together. Empire of Pain, the explosive new book by journalist Patrick Radden Keefe, is an attempt to change that to hold the family accountable in a way that nobody has quite done before, by. He’s writing of extraordinary things, but that alone won’t make it a good book. Foreign Policy & International Relations.
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