'Full Bio' — The Sackler Family

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Aug 21, 2021

Patrick Radden Keefe joins us for a new installment of our "Full Bio" series. He discusses his book about the Sackler family, Empire of Pain: the Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, from the roots of their wealth, to their family dynamics, and finally, a look into their role in the opioid crisis and Perdue Pharma's current bankruptcy cases.

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