Harvard Club of Philadelphia

Annual Meeting & Speaker  ***RSVP Now Open!!!*** 

Please join us for the Club's Annual Meeting and conversation with Patrick Radden Keefe, author of the New York Times bestseller EMPIRE OF PAIN: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty.  This year's meeting will be conducted virtually over Zoom. 

The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions – Harvard; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Oxford; the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations in the arts and the sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing Oxycontin, a blockbuster painkiller that was a catalyst for the opioid crisis-an international epidemic of drug addiction which has killed nearly half a million people.

Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and the author of the New York Times bestsellers Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty and Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland. Patrick started contributing to The New Yorker in 2006 and has written investigative narrative nonfiction on a range of subjects, from the hunt for the drug lord Chapo Guzman to the tragic personal history of the mass shooter Amy Bishop. He received the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing in 2014, and was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Reporting in 2015 and 2016. Say Nothing received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, as well as the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, and was selected by Entertainment Weekly as one of the “10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade.” 

Date: Tuesday, June 29th, 2021

Time: 7:00-8:30pm

Location: Zoom Meeting
      

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Event Organizer: Harvard Club of Philadelphia
  

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