While the German Democratic Republic's secret "State Plan" was in effect, more than ten thousand unsuspecting athletes were given massive doses of anabolic steroids. These athletes achieved massive success at the Olympics, but for many their physical and emotional health was permanently damaged. This new revised edition of Faust's Gold draws on the revelations of criminal trials of GDR coaches, doctors and officials who have now confessed to ruthless medical experiments. This new edition highlights recent cases of performance enhancing drugs used in baseball, the BALCO scandal and international cycling. As the use of illegal drugs continues to be discovered in so many sports, it is all the more important to read Faust's Gold, for whereas East Germany is no more, the same dreams and drives that lead athletes to turn to drugs and the same sort of evil people willing to dispense them, still exist. Steven Ungerleider's thorough study of this remains modern athletics most compelling horror story." -----Frank Deford, Sports Illustrated, Vanity Fair, NPR weekly contributor "Long before there was Biogenesis or BALCO, there was the East German doping machine - the granddaddy of performance-enhancing drug conspiracies. In Fausts Gold, Steven Ungerleider provides readers with a rich, authoritative account of how a tiny country willfully and tragically endangered its young athletes in the interest of becoming an Olympic juggernaut." -----Mark Fainaru-Wada, co-author "Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports" "The story of the state-sponsored doping of East German athletes in the 1970s and 1980s is one of the great sports tragedies of our time. Steven Ungerleider has gone behind the scenes to tell that story in stunning and riveting detail in Faust's Gold. If you are wondering when and where the Steroids Era got its start, Ungerleider has all the answers." -----Christine Brennan, USA Today sports columnist, ABC News commentator, best-selling author of Inside Edge and Best Seat in the House " "Faust's Gold by Steven Ungerleider is a cautionary tale about the very real dangers that performance-enhancing drugs can pose to athletes, and to sports." -----Lance Williams, co author, Game of Shadows "Memory is essential to who we are and what we do. To not just know but understand sports doping then and now, Steven Ungerleider's Faust's Gold is where to start." -----Alan Abrahamson, Journalist/lawyer and lecturer at the University of Southern California's Annenberg journalism school. "Steven Ungerleider is one of the pioneers of doping reportage. Today there are lots of American journalists who cover performance-enhancing drugs, and for many of us "Faust's Gold" is one of the foundational texts." -----Nathaniel Vinton, The New York Daily News (and co-author of American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America's Pastime) "In 'Faust's Gold,' the first book in English to fully convey the systematicdoping of athletes in the former East Germany, Ungerleider makes aprovocative comparison to the gruesome human experimentation of theHolocaust. The book is a disturbing reminder of the willingness of scienceto pervert itself to satisfy politics and sport."-------- Jere LongmanThe New York Times "You may grow faint...but I urge you to endure, to take it all in...forthen you will cry out NEVER AGAIN, NEVER AGAIN!"------- Kenny Moore, CorrespondentSports Illustrated----------"The truth is that what happened in East Germany is a gross exaggerationof what happens in countless gyms across America. Athletes aredowning the drugs as if their bodies were bulletproof. They ought to readthis book."----- Joan RyanSan Francisco Chronicle "Ungerleider's absorbing work is the first detailed look in English at thedoping that allowed a country of 16 million to join the United States andSoviet Union as sports superpowers."------------ Philip HershChicago Tribune Dr. Steven , an author of eight books, completed his undergraduate studies in psychology at the University of Texas, Austin, where he also competed as a collegiate gymnast. Since 1984, he has served on the United States Olympic Committee Sport Psychology Registry and has consulted with a number of international sport federations.  Ungerleider's East German Doping research is the subject of a one-hour documentary by the Canadian Film Company, as well as a one-hour special by ABC's 20/20, and NOS of Dutch Television. Ungerleider's work and his GDR archives were the subject of a PBS documentary entitled; DOPING FOR GOLD, which was nominated for an Emmy award. ----- In 2009, Ungerleider was asked to chair The Texas Program in Sports and Media (TPSM) at the University of Texas, Austin. This program under the umbrella of the UT school of communication will house the largest repository of sports research material including a major International Olympic collection, an East German Doping collect