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This month’s KELOLAND Living Book Club selection examines the history ... us discuss the themes and messages explored in “Empire of Pain the Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty.” ...
In Keefe’s new book, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, the journalist tells the story of how the Sacklers came to be so rich, so influential, and, ultimately ...
You first published your book Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America’s Opioid Epidemic, in 2003, but you rewrote it in 2018, correct? Yes. And now it’s out again just this ...
This book is my Roman Empire (to borrow a trope ... s history and the mark they’ve left on the world, Keefe’s Empire of Pain is a damning indictment of family secrets and corporate greed ...
Based on the book Pain Killer by Barry Meier and the New Yorker article 'The Family That Built an Empire of Pain,' it focuses specifically on the Sacklers, the real-life dynasty behind Pardue ...
and headliner of the Boston Book Festival Patrick Radden Keefe. Keefe is a writer for the New Yorker and the author of several best-selling books, including “Empire of Pain” (2021) and “Say ...
This six-part series is based on both Barry Meier’s book, “Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America’s Opioid Epidemic,” and on Patrick Radden Keefe’s New Yorker story ...