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...Highlights for me were Roger Cohen and Anjan Sundaram on writing war; Jonathan Freedland speaking about his book The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World; Patrick Radden Keefe...
...Previous winners include Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of Pain and Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk....
...That mirrors Patrick Radden Keefe’s thesis in Empire of Pain, his epic 2021 investigation into how the Sackler family profited from a devastating opioid epidemic that it helped to create, and to which Ghosh...
...This Patrick Radden Keefe essay in the New Yorker (A teen’s fatal plunge into the London underworld) left me mortified about the ineptitude and likely corruption of London’s Metropolitan Police....
...Drawing from Patrick Radden Keefe’s 2017 New Yorker article (which became his multi-prize-shortlisted book Empire of Pain), Painkiller is a new six-part drama about the US opioid crisis, and the Sackler...
...More than 100 companies are now eligible for S&P 500, the mid-cap 400 and small-cap 600, according to Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, an investment bank....
...On the books front, I just finished Patrick Radden Keefe’s excellent book on the IRA and the Troubles in Northern Ireland, Say Nothing, which looks at the larger issue through the lens of the abduction and...
...Recommended reading This New Yorker profile of star art dealer Larry Gagosian, by Patrick Radden Keefe (the author of Empire of Pain, about the Sackler opioid fortune) is one of the best magazine features...
...Patrick Radden Keefe reviews The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America’s Top Secrets. (Foreign Affairs) — You Are Not a Parrot And a chatbot is not a human....
...One good read Patrick Radden Keefe has written an insightful profile of the art dealer Larry Gagosian for The New Yorker — a much more detailed portrait than my much shorter effort on the same subject for...
...Radden Keefe’s book about the family and their company’s addictive painkiller OxyContin....
...Now try this It’s not new, but I recently read the excellent Say Nothing, Patrick Radden Keefe’s book — a fantastic primer about the three-decades-old Troubles in Northern Ireland....
...Do read on — Samuel Agini, sports business reporter Join big names at the FT’s Business of Football Summit Premier League chief executive Richard Masters, Crystal Palace manager Patrick Vieira, Newcastle...
...Kingsolver’s opioid plotline is less affecting — in part because the crisis has been covered so well in nonfiction books such as Beth Macy’s Dopesick (2018) and Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of Pain (2021...
...Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooksby Patrick Radden Keefe, Picador £20/Doubleday $30 Last year’s Empire of Pain told the story of the Sackler family and the OxyContin scandal in...
...Links and mentions from the episode: –Roula Khalaf recommends Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe –Pilita Clark recommends The Hydrogen Revolution by Marco Alvira and How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas...
...Weiss also noted that new information unearthed through court testimony and the book Empire of Pain by journalist Patrick Radden Keefe would allow the board “to make a more thoughtful judgment”.Last year...
...The other finalists were: The World for Sale, by Javier Blas and Jack Farchy, about the commodities boom; Empire of Pain, by Patrick Radden Keefe, on Purdue Pharma, the Sackler family, and the opioid epidemic...
...Empire of Pain, by Patrick Radden Keefe, explores the links between the Sackler family and the global epidemic of opioid addiction through the rise and fall of Purdue Pharma, a company owned by two of the...
...Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynastyby Patrick Radden Keefe, Picador £20/Doubleday $32.50 Shortlisted for Business Book of the Year, this is an exhaustive, devastating account of how...
...Most of the funds were provided by its controlling shareholder and executive chair Patrick Soon-Shiong....
...Richard Sackler, the leading figure behind the painkiller, was “able to sustain an impressive degree of emotional and cognitive detachment from reality”, Patrick Radden Keefe writes drily....
...But last year, according to analysts at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, that figure dropped from $94bn to $73bn — eroded by the impact of last year’s disaster losses and by many investors pulling money out....
...“All of the journalists — myself, Patrick Radden Keefe, Gerald Posner, Barry Meier — we’ve been screaming, waving the flag, about this for so many years,” says Beth Macy, a journalist whose 2018 book Dopesick...
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