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Patrick Radden Keefe, author of SAY NOTHING and EMPIRE OF PAIN
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Patrick Radden Keefe is the author of the New York Times bestseller SAY NOTHING which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, and was selected as one of the ten best books of 2019 by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, and others. His latest book 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. It is a portrait of the excesses of America’s second Gilded Age and a relentless investigation of the naked greed and indifference to human suffering that built one of the world’s great fortunes. Now let's join Amy Brinker in conversation with author Patrick Radden Keefe.
137 episoade
Manage episode 294508295 series 1401980
Patrick Radden Keefe is the author of the New York Times bestseller SAY NOTHING which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, and was selected as one of the ten best books of 2019 by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, and others. His latest book 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. It is a portrait of the excesses of America’s second Gilded Age and a relentless investigation of the naked greed and indifference to human suffering that built one of the world’s great fortunes. Now let's join Amy Brinker in conversation with author Patrick Radden Keefe.
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