Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America

by John F. Kasson

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A remarkable new work from one of our premier historians

In his exciting new book, John F. Kasson examines the signs of crisis in American life a century ago, signs that new forces of modernity were affecting men's sense of who and what they really were.

When the Prussian-born Eugene Sandow, an international vaudeville star and bodybuilder, toured the United States in the 1890s, Florenz Ziegfeld cannily presented him as the...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0809055473

ISBN13:9780809055470

Release Date:July 2002

Publisher:Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl

Length:272 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Related Subjects

19th Century Gender Studies History Men Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics

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