Time.news – The American journalist Patrick Radden Keefe tells the story of the Sackler family in a masterful work.
It is an immigrant family like thousands of others. At the beginning of the 20th century, Sophie Greenberg came from Poland to seek the American dream in New York. She found Isaac Sackler there, who had arrived from Galicia. Both will have three children: Arthur, Mortimer and Raymond. And despite some setbacks, the couple will have one pride: to pass on to their sons an unblemished name. A short century and three generations later, this name is hated in the country and a congressman said to be ‘not sure I know of a family in America that is more infamous’…
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It is the story of this family that the American journalist Patrick Radden Keefe tells us, in a masterful and extremely documented work. “There are a lot of great books on the opioid crisis, confesses the author. I wished…
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