League of Denial The NFL, Concussions, and the Battle for Truth

Name: League of Denial The NFL, Concussions, and the Battle for Truth
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ISBN: 9780770437565

ISBN-10: 0770437567

ISBN-13: 9780770437565

Edition: 2014

Authors: Mark Fainaru-Wada, Steve Fainaru

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"PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL PLAYERS DO NOT SUSTAIN FREQUENT REPETITIVE BLOWS TO THE BRAIN ON A REGULAR BASIS."So concluded the National Football League in a December 2005 scientific paper on concussions in America's most popular sport. That judgment, implausible even to a casual fan, also contradicted the opinion of a growing cadre of neuroscientists who worked in vain to convince the NFL that it was facing a deadly new scourge: A chronic brain disease that was driving an alarming number of players -- including some of the all-time greats -- to madness.League of Denial reveals how the NFL, over a period of nearly two decades, sought to cover up and deny mounting evidence of the connection…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/26/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.12" wide x 7.95" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Steve Fainaru, an award-winning correspondent for the "Washington Post", is coauthor of "The Duke of Havana: Baseball, Cuba, and the Search for the American Dream".