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A review of Patrick Radden Keefe's "Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty"

David B. Spitzer

Jun 21

                                                         Empire of Pain
                                                   Patrick Radden Keefe
                                              Doubleday, 560 pages, 2021

I am very skeptical that it is possible to read Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of Pain and come away with anything other than a deeply cyn…

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