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It was an epic downfall. In twenty-four seasons pitcher Roger Clemens put together one of the greatest careers baseball has ever seen. Seven Cy Young Awards, two World Series championships, and 354 victories made him a lock for the Hall of Fame. But on December 13, 2007, the Mitchell Report laid waste to all that. Accusations that Clemens relied on steroids and human growth hormone provided and administered by his former trainer, Brian McNamee, have put Clemens in the crosshairs of a Justice Department investigation.
Why did this happen? How did it happen? Who made the decisions that altered some lives and ruined others? How did a devastating culture of drugs, lies, sex, and cheating fester and grow throughout Major League Baseball's clubhouses? The answers are in these extraordinary pages.
American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America’s Pastime is about much more than the downfall of a superstar. While the fascinating portrait of Clemens is certainly at the center of the action, the book takes us outside the white lines and inside the lives and dealings of sports executives, trainers, congressmen, lawyers, drug dealers, groupies, a porn star, and even a murdererall of whom have ties to this saga. Four superb investigative journalists have spent years uncovering the truth, and at the heart of their investigation is a behind-the-scenes portrait of the maneuvering and strategies in the legal war between Clemens and his accuser, McNamee.
This compelling story is the strongest examination yet of the rise of illegal drugs in America’s favorite sport, the gym-rat culture in Texas that has played such an important role in spreading those drugs, and the way Congress has dealt with the entire issue. Andy Pettitte, Jose Canseco, Alex Rodriguez, and Chuck Knoblauch are just a few of the other players whose moving and sometimes disturbing stories are illuminated here as well. The New York Daily News Sports Investigative Team has written the definitive book on corruption and the steroids era in Major League Baseball. In doing so, they have managed to dig beneath the disillusion and disappointment to give us a stirring look at heroes who all too often live unheroic shadow lives.
Why did this happen? How did it happen? Who made the decisions that altered some lives and ruined others? How did a devastating culture of drugs, lies, sex, and cheating fester and grow throughout Major League Baseball's clubhouses? The answers are in these extraordinary pages.
American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America’s Pastime is about much more than the downfall of a superstar. While the fascinating portrait of Clemens is certainly at the center of the action, the book takes us outside the white lines and inside the lives and dealings of sports executives, trainers, congressmen, lawyers, drug dealers, groupies, a porn star, and even a murdererall of whom have ties to this saga. Four superb investigative journalists have spent years uncovering the truth, and at the heart of their investigation is a behind-the-scenes portrait of the maneuvering and strategies in the legal war between Clemens and his accuser, McNamee.
This compelling story is the strongest examination yet of the rise of illegal drugs in America’s favorite sport, the gym-rat culture in Texas that has played such an important role in spreading those drugs, and the way Congress has dealt with the entire issue. Andy Pettitte, Jose Canseco, Alex Rodriguez, and Chuck Knoblauch are just a few of the other players whose moving and sometimes disturbing stories are illuminated here as well. The New York Daily News Sports Investigative Team has written the definitive book on corruption and the steroids era in Major League Baseball. In doing so, they have managed to dig beneath the disillusion and disappointment to give us a stirring look at heroes who all too often live unheroic shadow lives.
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Michael O’Keeffe, Christian Red, Teri Thompson, and Nathaniel Vinton (shown left to right) are the New York Daily News Sports Investigative Team, which has been at the forefront of the issue of performance-enhancing drugs since the team’s inception in 2000. One of the only investigative units of its kind in American sports journalism, the I-Team has won more than a dozen major awards for its work.
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18 人中、17人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
5つ星のうち 5.0
Completely Gripping
2009/5/15
By Miles C.
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This is a splendid piece of work. The portrait of Clemens that emerges is itself captivating: the writers offer a detailed, patient, wonderfully human account of how the very things that made the man so indisputably great on the hill - willfulness, absolute indomitability - led to his spectacular public undoing. But what is to me even more gripping in the book is the legal and procedural story it unfolds, about precisely how steroids came to be the object of so much political and legal scrutiny in the first place. It's a story that spans more than a decade, criss-crosses the country, is filled astounding intricacy and intrigue, and features a series of vibrant, wonderfully-drawn characters. If you want to the richest backstory, not just on Clemens, but on the history and ongoing place of steroids in baseball, you must get hold of this book.
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5つ星のうち 5.0
American Icon is Great!
2009/5/15
By D. E. Ludmar
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形式:ハードカバー
I don't normally read baseball tell-all books, but I was drawn to this story because Clemens has insisted on maintaining his innocence despite the vast evidence, and I wanted to learn more. What a great decision! The book is excellent. Well written and thoroughly researched, I can't put it down. The characters (many of whom I only knew from media portrayals) really come alive. More than just a retelling of Clemens & McNamee's stories, the book portrays the entire steroid culture in baseball, from the points of view of the players (users and "clean"), suppliers, hangers-on, ownership, Congress, the media... it tells it all. Up there with MoneyBall and the Halberstam books, this is a must-read baseball book. I highly recommend it.
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5つ星のうち 3.0
Very Detailed Account
2009/5/19
By Casey
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形式:Kindle版|Amazon.co.jpで購入済み
This book, with a little over 9000 locations in the Kindle edition, is quite a lengthy read. The authors take painstaking care to present very in depth accounts of conversations, emails, phone calls, court records, and other communication between Roger Clemens, Brian McNamee, Andy Petitte and other figures involved.
I found it very interesting in the beginning, and then found it to become very lengthy toward the latter half of the book, with this part mostly dealing with Clemens, McNamee and Petittes' appearances before congress in 2008. The writers judge Clemens to be guilty right from the beginning, and say so in the first few pages of the book. I don't know how anyone could believe anything Clemens says about the matter after carefully reviewing what is in this book.
Overall very interesting for baseball fanatics, but probably not for for the casual fan or non-sports reader.
I found it very interesting in the beginning, and then found it to become very lengthy toward the latter half of the book, with this part mostly dealing with Clemens, McNamee and Petittes' appearances before congress in 2008. The writers judge Clemens to be guilty right from the beginning, and say so in the first few pages of the book. I don't know how anyone could believe anything Clemens says about the matter after carefully reviewing what is in this book.
Overall very interesting for baseball fanatics, but probably not for for the casual fan or non-sports reader.
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