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Sandow the Magnificent : Eugen Sandow and the Beginnings of Bodybuilding by David L. Chapman (1994, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press
ISBN-100252020332
ISBN-139780252020339
eBay Product ID (ePID)70529

Product Key Features

Book TitleSandow the Magnificent : Eugen Sandow and the Beginnings of Bodybuilding
Number of Pages264 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicBodybuilding & Weight Training, Popular Culture
Publication Year1994
IllustratorYes
GenreSports & Recreation, Social Science
AuthorDavid L. Chapman
Book SeriesSport and Society Ser.
FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in
Item Weight19.4 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in

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LCCN93-015736
Reviews"Chapman has written a first-rate biography and one that will continue to play an important role in our understanding of the body and the world of physical culture."--Jan Todd, Journal of Sport History, "A fascinating story. . . . Arnold, eat your heart out!"--Elliot J. Gorn, editor of Muhammad Ali: The People's Champ, " Sandow the Magnificent displays a deft prose style and an intriguing presentation of the great man's life. . . . Serious students of iron history who do not obtain this book should consider redefining themselves."--Joe Roark, FLEX
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal646.7/5/092
SynopsisBefore Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steve Reeves, or Charles Atlas, there was German-born Eugen Sandow (1867-1925), a muscular vaudeville strongman who used his good looks, intelligence, and business savvy to forge a fitness empire. David L. Chapman tells the story of the immensely popular showman who emphasized physique display rather than lifting prowess. But he also looks at Sandow's success off-stage, where the entertainer helped found the fitness movement by establishing a worldwide chain of gyms, publishing a popular magazine, selling exercise equipment, and pioneering the use of food supplements. Chapman explains physical culture's popularity in terms of its wider social implications while delving into how Sandow, by making exercise fashionable, ushered in the fitness craze that continues today. This new edition has been revised and enlarged with an afterword that includes unpublished information, new photographs of Sandow and his contemporaries, and an updated index., Unique and compelling, this husband-and-wife memoir of the Holocaust will move and inform generations. As we lose eyewitnesses to this ultimate horror, the Kuperhands present us with an elegantly restrained, yet hard-hitting, Kaddish to Polish Jewry.Miriam was the daughter of a prosperous furrier; Saul was the son of a poor shoemaker. Miriam was sixteen when she and her brother roamed the wild countryside of Poland, searching for food and shelter--and for their parents. Saul was only a few years older when he watched the smoke rising from the crematoria and knew that his parents, sister, and eight brothers were gone forever. Miriam lived by hiding; Saul lived by escaping from the camp.The authors emphasize the essential role that Polish Christians played in their survival and stress that wit, courage, faith, luck, and even a strong will to live were worthless without their help.The travail of their survival is wrenching yet comforting, tragic yet upbeat, cinematic yet intimate. Shadows of Treblinka will haunt and inspire its readers., Before Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steve Reeves, or Charles Atlas, there was Eugen Sandow, a muscular vaudeville strongman who used his good looks, intelligence, and business savvy to forge a fitness empire. The German-born Sandow (1867-1925) established a worldwide string of gyms, published a popular magazine, sold exercise equipment, and pioneered the use of food supplements. He even marketed a patented health corset for his female followers. Among the colorful figures who played a part in Sandow's life are Bernarr Macfadden, Florenz Ziegfeld, Lillian Russell, and others in sports and the theater. Sandow the Magnificent is the story of this first showman to emphasize physique display rather than lifting prowess. Sandow's is also the story of the earliest days of the fitness movement, and Chapman explains the popularity of physical culture in terms of its wider social implications. Sandow was a proponent of exercise to alleviate physical ailments, anticipating the field of physical therapy. By making exercise fashionable, he encouraged the fitness craze that still endures. As the first superstar in his field, Sandow also pried open some surprising cracks in the Victorian wall of prudery. His nude photographs, a kind of soft-core pornography, were anxiously sought by both male and female admirers, and after many of his major public events he gave private receptions wearing little more than a G-string., Unique and compelling, this husband-and-wife memoir of the Holocaust will move and inform generations. As we lose eyewitnesses to this ultimate horror, the Kuperhands present us with an elegantly restrained, yet hard-hitting, Kaddish to Polish Jewry.Miriam was the daughter of a prosperous furrier; Saul was the son of a poor shoemaker. Miriam was ......
LC Classification NumberGV545.52.S26C43 1994
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