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Mr. America : how muscular millionaire Bernarr Macfadden transformed the nation through sex, salad, and the ultimate starvation diet / Mark Adams.

Title
Mr. America : how muscular millionaire Bernarr Macfadden transformed the nation through sex, salad, and the ultimate starvation diet / Mark Adams.
Author
Adams, Mark, 1967-
Publication
New York : Harper, c2009.

Details

Description
viii, 292 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
Describes how Bernarr Macfadden overcame personal disadvantages as a tubercular orphan and founded the influential magazine, "Physical Culture," and traces the author's experimentation with some of Macfadden's more extreme diets.
Alternative Title
Mister America
Subject
  • Athletes
  • Attitude to Health
  • Bodybuilding > United States > History > 20th century
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Health attitudes > United States > History > 20th century
  • Health reformers > United States > Biography
  • History, 20th Century
  • Macfadden, Bernarr, 1868-1955
  • Macfadden, Bernarr, 1868-1955 > Influence
  • Macfadden, Bernarr
  • Millionaires > United States > Biography
  • Naturopathy
  • Periodicals > History > United States > 20th century
  • Physical Education and Training
  • Physical education and training > United States > Biography
  • Physical fitness > United States > History > 20th century
  • Publishers and publishing > United States > Biography
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Biography
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-279) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Little orphan Bernie -- The great awakening -- Go East, young man -- Strong opinions -- Utopia, New Jersey -- Health guru -- Mary -- Lost crusader -- Nothing but the truth -- The porno-graphic -- Extra! extra! -- Fame, fortune, fascism -- New deals -- Empire builder -- Macfadden for Senate -- Paradise lost.
ISBN
  • 9780060594756
  • 0060594756
LCCN
^^2008018705