Wilcockson offers the definitive life story of Lance Armstrong, the seven-time Tour de France champion and force behind the phenomenally successful LiveStrong campaign.
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John Wilcockson, who covered Lance Armstrong's sixth consecutive Tour de France victory his previous book, 23 DAYS IN JULY, now reveals the little-known details of Armstrong's difficult childhood in this informative biography. Almost everyone now knows the story of Armstrong's unbelievable comeback from testicular cancer, but few people know that he was the son of a teenage mother and a petty criminal in his adolescence. Armstrong used athletics as a mode of escape from the tough circumstances of his home life, and he excelled in baseball, track, and swimming before he discovered cycling. Wilcockson also addresses the details of Armstrong's battle with cancer, his divorce and family life, his intensive comeback training regiment, his abbreviated courtship with singer Sheryl Crow, and the doping controversy which still surrounds his amazing string of Tour de France victories.
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