Empire of Pain 疼痛帝国 英文原版
帕特里克-拉登-基夫是《纽约客》杂志的工作人员，最近的作品是《纽约时报》畅销书《什么都不要说》。该书获得了美国国家书评人协会非小说奖，被《纽约时报书评》、《华盛顿邮报》、《芝加哥论坛报》和《华尔街日报》选为2019年十本最佳图书之一，并被《娱乐周刊》评为十年来十本最佳非小说书之一。他以前的书有《蛇头》和《喋血》。他的作品得到了古根海姆奖学金、国家杂志特写奖和奥威尔政治写作奖的认可。
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库存2件
作者Patrick Radden Keefe
出版社Doubleday Books
ISBN9780385547741
出版时间2021-04
印刷时间2021-04
印数1千册
装帧平装
开本20开
纸张轻型纸
页数560页
字数1千字
定价152元
上书时间2022-01-14
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以慈善事业而闻名的萨克勒家族三代人的宏大而毁灭性的肖像，他们的财富是由安定剂建立的，而他们的声誉是由奥施康定摧毁的。
萨克勒的名字装饰着许多著名机构的墙壁哈佛大学、大都会艺术博物馆、牛津大学、卢浮宫。他们是世界上最富有的家族之一，以其对艺术和科学的大量捐赠而闻名。然而，家族财富的来源是模糊的，直到人们发现萨克雷家族负责制造和销售一种大片的止痛药，这是阿片类药物危机的催化剂。
《疼痛帝国》以医生三兄弟的故事开始，他们是雷蒙德、莫蒂默和精力充沛的亚瑟，他们经历了大萧条时期的贫困和令人震惊的反犹太主义。亚瑟在一个野蛮的精神病院工作，他看到了更好的方法，并对药物治疗进行了开创性的研究。他在营销方面也很有天赋，特别是在药品方面，并买下了一家小型广告公司。
阿瑟设计了安定的市场营销，并建立了萨克雷的第一笔巨额财富。他购买了一家药品制造商普渡-弗雷德里克公司，该公司将由雷蒙德和莫蒂默经营。兄弟俩开始收集艺术品和妻子，以及在异国他乡的宏伟住宅。他们的孩子和孙子孙女在奢华中长大。
0年后，雷蒙德的儿子理查德经营着家族拥有的普渡公司。阿瑟-萨克勒（Arthur Sackler）为销售安定药而创造的模板，即与医生合作，影响美国食品和药物管理局，淡化药物的成瘾性，被用来推出一种更有效的产品。奥施康定。这种药物后来创造了大约350亿美元的收入，并引发了一场公共卫生危机，数十万人将在其中丧生。
这是一个家族三代人的传奇故事，也是他们留给世界的印记，这个故事从二十世纪初布鲁克林的繁华街道到康涅狄格州格林威治的海滨宫殿，从安提布角到华盛顿特区的权力走廊，《痛苦帝国》记录了对萨克雷家族及其公司的多次调查，以及该家族为逃避责任而采取的焦土法律手段。萨克勒王朝的历史充满了戏剧性，巴洛克式的个人生活；痛苦的遗产纠纷；董事会的拳脚相加；闪闪发光的艺术收藏；马基雅维利式的法庭演习；以及精心策划的利用金钱来提高声誉和压制弱者的做法。
《疼痛帝国》是一部叙事性报道和写作的杰作，记录详尽且极具说服力。它是美国第二个镀金时代过度行为的写照，是对超级精英有罪不罚现象的研究，也是对建立世界上最大财富之一的赤裸裸的贪婪和对人类痛苦的漠视的不懈调查。
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, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing.
The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and the sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis.
Empire of Pain begins with the story of three doctor brothers, Raymond, Mortimer and the incalculably energetic Arthur, who weathered the poverty of the Great Depression and appalling anti-Semitism. Working at a barbaric mental institution, Arthur saw a better way and conducted groundbreaking research into drug treatments. He also had a genius for marketing, especially for pharmaceuticals, and bought a small ad firm.
Arthur devised the marketing for Valium, and built the first great Sackler fortune. He purchased a drug manufacturer, Purdue Frederick, which would be run by Raymond and Mortimer. The brothers began collecting art, and wives, and grand residences in exotic locales. Their children and grandchildren grew up in luxury.
Forty years later, Raymond s son Richard ran the family-owned Purdue. The template Arthur Sackler created to sell Valium co-opting doctors, influencing the FDA, downplaying the drug s addictiveness was employed to launch a far more potent product: OxyContin. The drug went on to generate some thirty-five billion dollars in revenue, and to launch a public health crisis in which hundreds of thousands would die.
ÿ ÿ ÿ 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 palacesÿof Greenwich, Connecticut, and Cap d Antibes to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C.ÿ 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. The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama baroque personal lives; bitter disputes over estates; fistfights in boardrooms; glittering art collections; Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers; and the calculated use of money to burnish reputations and crush the less powerful.
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 great fortunes.
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