Cover of Houdini, Tarzan, and the perfect man

Houdini, Tarzan, and the perfect man

by John F. Kasson

2001 256 pages eng

"In his 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 Eugen Sandow, an international vaudeville star and bodybuilder, toured the United S…

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