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JUICED HOME RUN TOTALS, ANTI-AGING MIRACLES, AND A HERCULES IN EVERY HIGH SCHOOL: THE SECRET HISTORY OF AMERICA'S TRUE DRUG ADDICTION
ESPN Books
November 2007
On Sale: October 23, 2007
368 pages
ISBN: 1933060379
EAN: 9781933060378
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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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