Mr America

Author : Mark Adams
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061976474
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr. America written by Mark Adams and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A remarkable story. . . . It is to Mark Adams’s great credit that, in Mr. America, he has rescued from obscurity a man whose influence is still felt in this country more than a century after he muscled his way onto the national scene.” —Wall Street Journal “Hilarious. . . . Delightful. . . . If Macfadden hadn’t existed, we would have had to invent him.” —Washington Post Mr. America is the fascinating true story of Bernarr Macfadden, a self-made millionaire and founding father of bodybuilding, alternative medicine, and tabloid culture. Madfadden’s impact on popular American culture is everywhere, from yoga to raw food diets to US Weekly, and Mr. America vividly brings to life this charismatic and intriguing character.

Author : John D. Fair
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292767501
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr. America written by John D. Fair and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Map[s] the shifting definitions of gender and masculinity . . . provides the rare insight into the world of bodybuilding that only an insider could offer.” —Sport in American History For most of the twentieth century, the “Mr. America” image epitomized muscular manhood. From humble beginnings in 1939 at a small gym in Schenectady, New York, the Mr. America Contest became the world’s premier bodybuilding event over the next thirty years. Rooted in ancient Greek virtues of health, fitness, beauty, and athleticism, it showcased some of the finest specimens of American masculinity. Interviewing nearly one hundred major figures in the physical culture movement (including twenty-five Mr. Americas) and incorporating copious printed and manuscript sources, John D. Fair has created the definitive study of this iconic phenomenon. Revealing the ways in which the contest provided a model of functional and fit manhood, Mr. America captures the event’s path to idealism and its slow descent into obscurity. As the 1960s marked a turbulent transition in American society—from the civil rights movement to the rise of feminism and increasing acceptance of homosexuality—Mr. America changed as well. Exploring the influence of other bodily displays, such as the Mr. Universe and Mr. Olympia contests and the Miss America Pageant, Fair focuses on commercialism, size obsession, and drugs that corrupted the competition’s original intent. Accessible and engaging, Mr. America is a compelling portrayal of the glory days of American muscle. “An entertaining narrative of the bodybuilding subculture in America.” —Kirkus Reviews “Deftly written and superbly researched.” —Journal of Sport History

Author : George MacDonald Fraser
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780006470182
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr American written by George MacDonald Fraser and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For this riotous Edwardian caper, the author of the bestselling "Flashman Papers" presents a raucous adventure that brings America's Wild West to London's West End and features arch-cad Harry Flashman.

Author : Juliet McDaniel
Publisher : Inkshares
ISBN 13 : 1942645864
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr. & Mrs. American Pie written by Juliet McDaniel and published by Inkshares. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the vein of Where'd You Go, Bernadette, this whip-smart romantic comedy is as incisive as it is funny—and refuses to be thwarted by convention. After getting dumped by her husband, a woman sets out to prove her worth by entering a 'best housewife' pageant in 1970 Palm Springs.

Author : John D. Fair
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0292767498
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr. America written by John D. Fair and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Map[s] the shifting definitions of gender and masculinity . . . provides the rare insight into the world of bodybuilding that only an insider could offer.” —Sport in American History For most of the twentieth century, the “Mr. America” image epitomized muscular manhood. From humble beginnings in 1939 at a small gym in Schenectady, New York, the Mr. America Contest became the world’s premier bodybuilding event over the next thirty years. Rooted in ancient Greek virtues of health, fitness, beauty, and athleticism, it showcased some of the finest specimens of American masculinity. Interviewing nearly one hundred major figures in the physical culture movement (including twenty-five Mr. Americas) and incorporating copious printed and manuscript sources, John D. Fair has created the definitive study of this iconic phenomenon. Revealing the ways in which the contest provided a model of functional and fit manhood, Mr. America captures the event’s path to idealism and its slow descent into obscurity. As the 1960s marked a turbulent transition in American society—from the civil rights movement to the rise of feminism and increasing acceptance of homosexuality—Mr. America changed as well. Exploring the influence of other bodily displays, such as the Mr. Universe and Mr. Olympia contests and the Miss America Pageant, Fair focuses on commercialism, size obsession, and drugs that corrupted the competition’s original intent. Accessible and engaging, Mr. America is a compelling portrayal of the glory days of American muscle. “An entertaining narrative of the bodybuilding subculture in America.” —Kirkus Reviews “Deftly written and superbly researched.” —Journal of Sport History

Author : John D. Fair
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271043253
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muscletown USA written by John D. Fair and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nancy Shayne
Publisher : Playskool Books
ISBN 13 : 9780525455530
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr. Potato Head Across America written by Nancy Shayne and published by Playskool Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Potato Head travels back to Idaho for a family reunion.

Author : Lee Alan Dugatkin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226169197
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose written by Lee Alan Dugatkin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years after the Revolutionary War, the fledgling republic of America was viewed by many Europeans as a degenerate backwater, populated by subspecies weak and feeble. Chief among these naysayers was the French Count and world-renowned naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, who wrote that the flora and fauna of America (humans included) were inferior to European specimens. Thomas Jefferson—author of the Declaration of Independence, U.S. president, and ardent naturalist—spent years countering the French conception of American degeneracy. His Notes on Virginia systematically and scientifically dismantled Buffon’s case through a series of tables and equally compelling writing on the nature of his home state. But the book did little to counter the arrogance of the French and hardly satisfied Jefferson’s quest to demonstrate that his young nation was every bit the equal of a well-established Europe. Enter the giant moose. The American moose, which Jefferson claimed was so enormous a European reindeer could walk under it, became the cornerstone of his defense. Convinced that the sight of such a magnificent beast would cause Buffon to revise his claims, Jefferson had the remains of a seven-foot ungulate shipped first class from New Hampshire to Paris. Unfortunately, Buffon died before he could make any revisions to his Histoire Naturelle, but the legend of the moose makes for a fascinating tale about Jefferson’s passion to prove that American nature deserved prestige. In Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose, Lee Alan Dugatkin vividly recreates the origin and evolution of the debates about natural history in America and, in so doing, returns the prize moose to its rightful place in American history.

Author : Ellington Darden
Publisher : Rodale
ISBN 13 : 9781594860003
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New High Intensity Training written by Ellington Darden and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the high intensity training philosophy with key training points, a specialized two-week course for developing certain areas of the body, a nutrition plan for boosting body mass, and stories of well-known HIT users.

Author : George E. Stanley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439113610
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr. Rogers written by George E. Stanley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most popular series ever published for young Americas, these classics have been praised alike by parents, teachers, and librarians. With these lively, inspiring, fictionalized biographies -- easily ready by children of eight and up -- today's youngster is swept right into history.