Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty Graduation former South African president Nelson

former South African president Nelson Mandela with Clyde Bellecourt

Each candle is hand poured and hand painted by South African artisans with years of experience

Bright and bold

a tale that moves from the bustling streets of early twentieth-century Brooklyn to the seaside palaces of Greenwich

First published in Portuguese in 1968

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty Graduation former South African president NelsonBy 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;