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Who is Arnold Schwarzenegger? A super-achiever who parlayed a steroid-enhanced bodybuilding career into the life of a global celebrity -- the highest-paid actor in Hollywood, consort of a Kennedy & supreme self-publicist? Or a new-millennial Teutonic terminator, sent from Austria to America to kick Democratic butt? Here is the story of Arnold's rise from a Germanic upbringing in Austria to the world of bodybuilding, movie aspirations & carefully crafted metamorphosis from muscle-bound star to political powerhouse. Follows the twists & turns of his strange career, all the way up through the meticulously stage-managed but scandal-assailed campaign leading to the dramatic recall election & his eventual triumph as Governor of California. Photos.
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True Myths, Nigel Andrews
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- 2005
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- Title
- True Myths
- Subtitle
- The Life and Times of Arnold Schwarzenegger, from Pumping Iron to Governor of California
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Nigel Andrews
- Released
- 2005
- Pages
- 284
- ISBN10
- 0756785901
- ISBN13
- 9780756785901
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- Who is Arnold Schwarzenegger? A super-achiever who parlayed a steroid-enhanced bodybuilding career into the life of a global celebrity -- the highest-paid actor in Hollywood, consort of a Kennedy & supreme self-publicist? Or a new-millennial Teutonic terminator, sent from Austria to America to kick Democratic butt? Here is the story of Arnold's rise from a Germanic upbringing in Austria to the world of bodybuilding, movie aspirations & carefully crafted metamorphosis from muscle-bound star to political powerhouse. Follows the twists & turns of his strange career, all the way up through the meticulously stage-managed but scandal-assailed campaign leading to the dramatic recall election & his eventual triumph as Governor of California. Photos.