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NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER 8226NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE 8226 Dr. Bennet Omalu discovered something he could not ignore. The NFL tried to silence him. His courage would change everything. 8220A gripping medical mystery and a dazzling portrait of the young scientist no one wanted to listen to . . . a fabulous, essential read.82218212Rebecca Skloot, author ofThe Immortal Life of Henrietta LacksJeanne Marie Laskas first met the young forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu in 2009, while reporting a story forGQthat would go on to inspire the movieConcussion. 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 he8217d 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 8220Iron Mike,8221 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 Omalu8217s 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 Webster8217s brain8212proof that Iron Mike8217s mental deterioration was no accident but a disease caused by blows to the head that could affect everyone playing the game8212was the one truth the NFL wanted to ignore.Taut, gripping, and gorgeously told,Concussionis the stirring story of one unlikely man8217s decision to stand up to a multibillion-dollar colossus, and to tell the world the truth.
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