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December 2015
On Sale: November 24, 2015
ISBN: 0812987578
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Non-Fiction Sports | Non-Fiction Biography
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Will Smith,
CONCUSSION is the riveting, unlikely story of Dr. Bennet
Omalu, the pathologist who made one of the most significant
medical discoveries of the twenty-first century, a
discovery
that challenges the existence of America’s favorite sport
and puts Omalu in the crosshairs of football’s most
powerful
corporation: the NFL.
Jeanne Marie Laskas first met the young forensic
pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu in 2009, while reporting a
story for GQ
that would go on to inspire the movie Concussion.
Omalu told her about a day in September 2002, when, in a
dingy morgue in downtown Pittsburgh, he picked up a scalpel
and made a discovery that would rattle America in ways
he’d never intended. Omalu was new to America, chasing the dream, a deeply
spiritual man escaping the wounds of civil war in Nigeria.
The
body on the slab in front of him belonged to a fifty-year-
old named Mike Webster, aka “Iron Mike,” a Hall of Fame
center
for the Pittsburgh Steelers, one of the greatest ever to
play the game. After retiring in 1990, Webster had suffered
a
dizzyingly steep decline. Toward the end of his life, he
was living out of his van, tasering himself to relieve his
chronic
pain, and fixing his rotting teeth with Super Glue. How did this happen?, Omalu asked himself. How did a young
man like Mike Webster end up like this? The search for
answers would change Omalu’s life forever and put him in
the crosshairs of one of the most powerful corporations in
America: the National Football League. What Omalu
discovered in Webster’s brain—proof that Iron Mike’s mental
deterioration was no accident but a disease caused by blows
to the head that could affect everyone playing the game—
was the one truth the NFL wanted to ignore.
Taut, gripping, and gorgeously told, CONCUSSION is the
stirring story of one unlikely man’s decision to stand up
to a
multibillion-dollar colossus, and to tell the world the
truth.
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