Randy, your book is a killer! You knocked it out of the park, and I’m not saying this merely to puff you up. I’m on page one hundred fifty, reading it slowly because I don’t want it to end. There are other experts in the Iron Game, but nobody has ever come anywhere close to […]
This is an extremely well researched and well presented piece of history, complete and enjoyable to read. -Dr. Ken Leistner
Over the course of the last year, I have had the pleasure of knowing and working with Randy Roach as a contributor to Volume II of Muscle, Smoke & Mirrors. And I am proud to have been one of the few people that have seen this volume as both a work in progress and as […]
I’m a hundred pages or so into Vol.2 & enjoying it enormously. You really have done a great job with that fascinating, complicated, politically-charged, big ego time. Your handling of the story is calm, fair, big-hearted even, and the writing is very good indeed. Many, many congratulations to you on a fine, fine job. I […]
For many years I have always said that someone should write the “REAL” book of bodybuilding, the “REAL” stories. At the time I believed that only two people were capable of doing that, one was Artie Zeller, the other person was Wayne DeMilia. Artie, passed away a few years ago, Wayne has no interest in […]
Muscle, Smoke & Mirrors, Volume II, The Pumping Iron Years…Nautilus Emerges, SURPRISING, EYE-OPENING, SURPASSES ALL EXPECTATIONS! As a martial artist, I have an interest in health and strength development. Having no prior knowledge of the “Iron Game”, I found Volume I thoroughly enjoyable, and anxiously awaited the release of Volume II. Volume II is outstanding! […]
After many years of extensive research and hundreds of interviews, Vol. II of ‘Muscle, Smoke, & Mirrors’ picks up where Vol. I left off. As usual, Randy has outdone himself with the depth and quality of his work. I especially liked the sections of the book that covered Arthur Jones, Nautilus, the improvement of machines, […]