Sandow the Magnificent: Eugen Sandow and the Beginnings of Bodybuilding by Chapman, David L.

Sandow the Magnificent: Eugen Sandow and the Beginnings of Bodybuilding

Before Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steve Reeves, or Charles Atlas, there was German-born Eugen Sandow (1867-1925), a muscular vaudeville...
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Sandow the Magnificent: Eugen Sandow and the Beginnings of Bodybuilding by Chapman, David L.

Sandow the Magnificent: Eugen Sandow and the Beginnings of Bodybuilding

$54.93

Sandow the Magnificent: Eugen Sandow and the Beginnings of Bodybuilding

$54.93
Author: David L. Chapman
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Before 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This new edition has been revised and enlarged with an afterword that includes unpublished information, new photographs of Sandow and his contemporaries, and an updated index.



Author: David L. Chapman
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 01/17/2006
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.68h x 6.74w x 0.89d
ISBN: 9780252073069

About the Author
David L. Chapman is the author of Universal Hunks: A Pictorial History of Muscular Men around the World, 1895-1975and coauthor of American Hunks: The Muscular Male Body in Popular Culture, 1860-1970.


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