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Now with kung fu grip! : how bodybuilders, soldiers and a hairdresser reinvented martial arts for America /
- Title
- Now with kung fu grip! : how bodybuilders, soldiers and a hairdresser reinvented martial arts for America / Jared Miracle.
- Author
- Miracle, Jared,
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]
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Details
- Description
- ix, 188 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "The rise of Asian martial arts in America is a fascinating untold story of modern history. The cast of characters includes circus strongmen, professional cage fighters, an award winning comic book artist, the inventors of judo, aikido and Cornflakes, and Count Juan Raphael Dante, a Chicago hairdresser and used car salesman with the "Deadliest Hands in the World.""--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The YMCA, Christian muscle and breakfast cereal -- Karate, boxing and other Japanese creations -- U.S. occupation and a new manly art -- In search of the death touch -- Bigger muscles, mutant turtles and cage-fighting philosophers.
- ISBN
- 9781476663500
- 1476663505
- LCCN
- 2016024110
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library