Sandow the Magnificent: Eugen Sandow and the Beginnings of Bodybuilding
- ISBN-10
- 0252020332
- ISBN-13
- 9780252020339
- Category
- Bodybuilders
- Pages
- 229
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Author
- David L. Chapman
Description
Looks at the life and career of the man who invented the business of bodybuilding, from his days in a European circus to his performances in Amsterdam and continual self-publicity that made him famous
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- 2006
- 273 pages
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- Sport and Society
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