Tag: history

  • Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

    This is a worthy read even if you’ve read all the contemporaries. It isn’t so much a book about the opioid crisis (although it is that), as much as it is a real-life Succession. Reads for the most part like a novel. Necessarily gets in the weeds a bit when the courts and investigators get…

  • Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham

    Detailed, well-researched, gripping and grim as hell. It makes a fantastic companion to the HBO miniseries – in fact many events in this book seem to have been recreated in the series, though no formal attribution was made. It’s a horrible story of institutional failure paid for in human lives. Written like a thriller, it…