Patrick Radden Keefe
Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker and author of the New York Times bestsellers Empire of Pain and Say Nothing, as well as two earlier nonfiction books, The Snakehead and Chatter. His most recent book is Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks. Patrick grew up in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and went to college at Columbia. He received master’s degrees from Cambridge University and the London School of Economics and a law degree from Yale. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and fellowships from the New America Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
Empire of Pain is 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. This 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. 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. Empire of Pain is a masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, exhaustively documented and ferociously compelling. It is a portrait of the excesses of America’s second Gilded Age, a study of impunity among the super elite and a relentless investigation of the naked greed and indifference to human suffering that built one of the world’s greatest fortunes.
“Empire of Pain by the New Yorker staff writer, is a deeply reported chronicle of the Sackler family and the highly addictive painkiller it marketed — at great profit and with disastrous results for the public.” —The New York Times
The first 200 attendees will receive a free copy of Keefe’s book, Empire of Pain.
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