Edition |
First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition. |
Description |
x, 646 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
Note |
Includes index. |
Contents |
Out of Austria -- Building a body -- Confessions of a tank driver -- Mr. Universe -- Greetings from Los Angeles -- Lazy bastards -- Experts in marble and stone -- Learning American -- The greatest muscle show ever -- Stay hungry -- Pumping iron -- Dream girl -- Maria and me -- What doesn't kill us makes us stronger -- Becoming American -- The Terminator -- Marriage and movies -- Comic timing -- The real life of a terminator -- The Last Action Hero -- Heart trouble -- Family guy -- A political proposition -- Total Recall -- The Governator -- Comeback -- Who needs Washington? -- The real life of a Governator -- The secret -- Arnold's rules. |
Summary |
The greatest immigrant success story of our time. His story is unique, and uniquely entertaining, and he tells it brilliantly in these pages. He was born in a year of famine, in a small Austrian town, the son of an austere police chief. He dreamed of moving to America to become a bodybuilding champion and a movie star. By the age of twenty-one, he was living in Los Angeles and had been crowned Mr. Universe. Within five years, he had learned English and become the greatest bodybuilder in the world. Within ten years, he had earned his college degree and was a millionaire from his business enterprises in real estate, landscaping, and bodybuilding. He was also the winner of a Golden Globe Award for his debut as a dramatic actor in Stay Hungry. Within twenty years, he was the world's biggest movie star, the husband of Maria Shriver, and an emerging Republican leader who was part of the Kennedy family. Thirty-six years after coming to America, the man once known by fellow bodybuilders as the Austrian Oak was elected governor of California, the seventh largest economy in the world. He led the state through a budget crisis, natural disasters, and political turmoil, working across party lines for a better environment, election reforms, and bipartisan solutions. With Maria Shriver, he raised four fantastic children. In the wake of a scandal he brought upon himself, he tried to keep his family together. Until now, he has never told the full story of his life, in his own voice. Here is Arnold, with total recall.-- Provided by Publisher. |
Subject |
Schwarzenegger, Arnold.
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Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
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Governors -- California -- Biography.
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Celebrities -- United States -- Biography.
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Bodybuilders -- United States -- Biography.
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Austrian Americans -- Biography.
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Added Author |
Petre, Peter.
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ISBN |
9781451662436 hardback $32.50 |
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1451662432 |
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