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For decades osteopathic physician Larry Nassar built a sterling
reputation as the go-to doctor for America's Olympians while
treating hundreds of others at his office on Michigan State
University's campus. Parents and coaches entrusted their children
to Nassar's care-only for him to use that trust to manipulate and
sexually abuse hundreds of girls and young women under the guise of
medical treatment. In Start by Believing, John Barr and Dan Murphy
confront Nassar's acts, as well as the epic institutional failures
and individuals who enabled him--failures whose consequences
continue to play out in the legal system. It is an account of a
corrupted culture with rules and rituals all its own: the
dysfunctional and high-pressured world of club level and elite
gymnastics, where young girls are trained in atmospheres of fear
and intimidation; a world where Larry Nassar was protected by
enablers more interested in an institution's image than the
well-being of young people. Above all, this book is the story of
the women, individuals of uncommon grit and perseverance-including
an unlikely pairing of a once-shy Christian mother and an outspoken
former Olympic medallist-who bravely spoke out and brought a
criminal and his enablers to justice.
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