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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
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challenging
dark
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.5
Surreal, insightful, albeit and clinical deep dive into the depraved and unhinged Sackler criminal billionaire family. This book is one of many definitive proofs that the billionaire is incompatible with humanity at this point and greed is an addiction as equally destructive and demoralizing as any substance addiction if not more or worse. The lengths the rotting rich go to to keep their corrosive money are so twisted but it's also morbidly impressive how they weave the web of connections and buy their way into getting the results they want. Particularly this family who honestly wouldn't have made it without ass kissers and enablers and unscrupulous people making their perversity possible bc most of them are so offensively insensitive and stupid.
Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Medical content, and Classism
Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Suicide, Antisemitism, and Suicide attempt