Empire of Pain
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Empire of Pain
| Full title | Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty |
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| Author | Patrick Radden Keefe |
| Published | 2021 |
| Pages | 720 |
| Recommended | 5 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Patrick Radden Keefe’s history of three generations of Sacklers — how a family built a pharmaceutical fortune on marketing, and how the same machinery that sold Valium sold OxyContin. |
Where I heard about it
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Spotted at JFK Airport — January 2023 (Books photo album)
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Spotted at SFO — March 2025 (Books photo album)
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Spotted at Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, Beaverton — July 2025 (Books photo album)
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Replies to @moseskagan — named in the replies to his question “What historical fiction should I read next?”, April 2025. Full list: What historical fiction should I… (tweet).
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Replies to @WillManidis — named again, independently, in the replies to “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?”, June 2025. Full list: what is the single best book… (tweet).
Connections
- What historical fiction should I… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- what is the single best book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- Industry Analysis — the reply that named it in the industry thread was pitching it as the one book that explains pharma marketing.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.