True Story : : How a Pulp Empire Remade Mass Media / / Shanon Fitzpatrick.
The larger-than-life story of Bernarr Macfadden, a bodybuilder who turned his obsession with muscles, celebrity, and confession into a publishing empire that transformed global media. In True Story, Shanon Fitzpatrick tells the unlikely story of an orphan from the Ozarks who became one of history’s...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Decades of Fitness in the Dynamic Midwest
- 2. The Transatlantic Birth of the Physical Culture Publishing Company
- 3. Circulating Physiques in an Age of Imperialism and Migration
- 4. Building Up the Nation during the First World War
- 5. The Sensational Rise of Macfadden Publications Inc.
- 6. The Great Depression and the Macfadden Market
- 7. International Issues, Foreign Editions, and the Global Popular
- 8. From the World of Tomorrow to the American Century
- Epilogue : Pulp Empire Today
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index