PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE: Arthur was this amazing, protean character. Keith begins this family saga in the mid-1900s with Isaac Sackler's three sons, the eldest of whom was Arthur Sackler. In his new book "Empire Of Pain," Patrick Radden Keefe tells the sweeping story of the rise and fall of an American dynasty, a family obsessed with emblazoning its name across museums and galleries all while largely obscuring any connection between its name and the drug that killed so many people. Well, the Sackler name is now forever entwined with the company Purdue Pharma, the creator of Ox圜ontin, the drug that helped steer the country into an opioid epidemic that has killed almost half a million people the last two decades. Isaac Sackler once told his three boys, what I have given you is the most important thing a father can give - a good name.
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