Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty Accessories Lester Young

Lester Young

From her timid beginnings after her first solo show

who weathered the poverty of the Great Depression and appalling anti-Semitism

With eighteen rousing graduation speeches

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty Accessories Lester YoungBy Patrick Radden Keefe A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER 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. From the prize winning and bestselling author of Say Nothing The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with dramabaroque personal lives; bitter disputes over estates;