Steroid Nation: Juiced Home Run Totals, Anti-aging Miracles, and a Hercules in Every High School: The Secret History of America's True Drug Addiction
"InSteroid Nation, Shaun Assael skillfully tracks the course of the steroid epidemic that has swept through American sports. His portrait of pioneering steroid guru Dan Duchaine, who did so much to popularize performance-enhancing drugs, is compelling and disturbing." --Lance Williams, co-author,Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroid Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports--Lance Williams, co-author"Shaun Assael'sSteroid Nationdocuments the rise of muscle culture in much the same way that Randy Shilts'And the Band Played Onchronicled the spread of AIDS. This marvelously reported narrative takes the reader from seedy California gyms to Capitol Hill, from high school locker rooms to major league clubhouses. Finally, Assael demonstrates the price Americans have paid for getting so big." --Mark Kriegel, author ofPistol: The Life of Pete MaravichandNamath: A Biography--Mark Kriegel"This story doesnÕt just take place in the professional baseball stadiums of America, it takes place on the playgrounds of every town in the United States. ÊSteroid Nationtells us how steroids have become our countryÕs drug and offers some important solutions for the future." --Barry McCaffrey, former Director, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy --Barry McCaffrey"WithSteroid Nation, Shaun Assael has brilliantly anatomized the American obsession with performance -- and physique -- enhancing drugs. If you are interested in the truth about todayÕs sports world -- the unvarnished but juiced-up, muscle-bound truth --Steroid Nationis required reading." --Jeremy Schaap, author ofCinderella Man: James J.Braddock, Max Baer and the Greatest Upset in Boxing HistoryandTriumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics--Steroid Nation