Steroid Nation: Juiced Home Run Totals, 300-Pound Linebackers, and a Hercules in Every High School: The Secret History of America's True Drug Addiction by Assael
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- Pub. Date: October 2007
- 368pp
- Sales Rank: 218,567
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: October 2007
- Publisher: ESPN
- Format: Hardcover, 368pp
- Sales Rank: 218,567
- ISBN-13: 9781933060378
- ISBN: 1933060379
Synopsis
When science lets us fulfill our greatest desires, where do we stop? Should Barry Bonds's startling achievements be listed in the record book with an asterisk because he has been accused of using steroids? Did performance-enhancing drugs play a role in Lance Armstrong's seven Tour de France victories? And what does Arnold Schwarzenegger's continued success say about the appeal of his steroid-fueled bodybuilding persona?
In the tradition of And the Band Played On, award-winning journalist Shaun Assael looks at America's complicated love affair with steroids and how it has grown into the country's -- and perhaps the world's -- most insidious drug addiction.
Steroid Nation presents a chilling portrait of a nation enamored of artificially pumped-up success. Chronicling steroid use far beyond the headlines, it begins with the bodybuilders of Venice Beach in the 1970s and continues through to the NFL's Raiders of the '80s and '90s and the baseball scandals of today. Assael also reveals the dramatic story of the godfather of the steroid movement: Dan Duchaine, who wrote The Original Underground Steroid Handbook in 1981.
Part detective story, part medical investigation, and part sociological examination, Steroid Nation is a groundbreaking work on the most compelling story in the sports world today.
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Shaun Assael is an award-winning investigative writer with ESPN The Magazine. He is the author of a chronicle of the 1996 NASCAR season, Wide Open, and coauthor of an unauthorized biography of the WWE's Vince McMahon, Sex, Lies & Headlocks, which was a New York Times best-seller.
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Steroid Nation: Juiced Home Run Totals, 300-Pound Linebackers, and a Hercules in Every High School:by Anonymous
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January 18, 2008: Being a gym rat myself, and constantly wondering about steroids, this book answered a lot of question and really put the truth out on the table. So many things I hadn't expected from people who are the mass' idols simply shocked me. This book is definitely going to catch your attention if fitness is your thing.
Steroid Nation: Juiced Home Run Totals, 300-Pound Linebackers, and a Hercules in Every High School:by Anonymous
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November 19, 2007: Personally, I enjoyed reading the book very much, and learned a lot from it in the process. This book tied up a lot of loose ends in my mind pertaining to steroids and the beginning of steroid use in professional sports. Not only was it a real eye opener, but it was a good read as well. I can?t honestly say I enjoyed reading another book more than I did Steroid Nation. I have no complaints about the book and I highly recommend this to any person who would like a clear cut, unbiased history of steroid use in the United States and in professional sports.
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