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During two feverish decades between the world wars, Bernarr Macfadden did more to educate the world about healthy eating, alternative medicine, regular sexual activity, and exercise than anyone in history. His disciples included Upton Sinclair and Charles Atlas; among his employees were Walter Winchell, Ed Sullivan, and Eleanor Roosevelt. He launched the worst newspaper in U.S. history, founded a whole-grain utopian community in the New Jersey suburbs, trained fascist cadets for Mussolini, and came within a hair's breadth of being elected senator from Florida—running on a physical fitness platform. Yet today few have heard of this larger-than-life entrepreneur who changed American society. In Mr. America, Mark Adams illuminates Macfadden's captivating, ambitious, and unparalleled life.
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Mark Adams is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in GQ, Outside, the New York Times Magazine, Fortune, and New York. He lives near New York City with his wife and three sons.
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20 人中、20人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Mr. America Tells an Amazing Story
2009/3/18
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As the creator of the [...] web site and an avid collector of Macfadden memorabilia, I was eager to read Mr. America, a biography of Bernarr Macfadden.
Mr. America tells the rags-to-riches story of an incredibly interesting and multi-faceted individual, Bernarr Macfadden, a true self-made man and self-promoter (who even coined his own name). Macfadden was a larger-than life personality who, starting out as a poor and sickly orphan, became an icon for health and strength as well as a multi-millionaire entrepreneur. He had a monumental influence on shaping several industries, from bodybuilding to health foods and exercise to publishing. He was internationally famous during the first half of the twentieth century, but, incredibly, is virtually unknown today.
Mr. America is a comprehensive and well-researched biography, but, more than that, it captures the amazement one is sure to experience when "discovering" Macfadden for the first time. It is exciting to read about such Macfadden "firsts" as promoting the first public bodybuilding contests in America, campaigning against prudery and corsets, battling with censors and the medical profession, advocating natural foods and exercise, publishing the longest-running health magazine in history (nearly 60 years), and launching a whole genre of pulp magazines (True Story, etc.) from which he created a multi-million dollar media empire.
One thing that makes this biography especially enjoyable is how Mr. Adams has tied parts of Macfadden's amazing story to the people and things that the reader is familiar with (such as Jack LaLanne and Nike shoes). Although this book is meticulously researched, it does not read like a stuffy history textbook. Instead, the author tells this amazing story in a conversational style that makes his book especially fun to read.
Mr. America tells the rags-to-riches story of an incredibly interesting and multi-faceted individual, Bernarr Macfadden, a true self-made man and self-promoter (who even coined his own name). Macfadden was a larger-than life personality who, starting out as a poor and sickly orphan, became an icon for health and strength as well as a multi-millionaire entrepreneur. He had a monumental influence on shaping several industries, from bodybuilding to health foods and exercise to publishing. He was internationally famous during the first half of the twentieth century, but, incredibly, is virtually unknown today.
Mr. America is a comprehensive and well-researched biography, but, more than that, it captures the amazement one is sure to experience when "discovering" Macfadden for the first time. It is exciting to read about such Macfadden "firsts" as promoting the first public bodybuilding contests in America, campaigning against prudery and corsets, battling with censors and the medical profession, advocating natural foods and exercise, publishing the longest-running health magazine in history (nearly 60 years), and launching a whole genre of pulp magazines (True Story, etc.) from which he created a multi-million dollar media empire.
One thing that makes this biography especially enjoyable is how Mr. Adams has tied parts of Macfadden's amazing story to the people and things that the reader is familiar with (such as Jack LaLanne and Nike shoes). Although this book is meticulously researched, it does not read like a stuffy history textbook. Instead, the author tells this amazing story in a conversational style that makes his book especially fun to read.
13 人中、13人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
This Book Is A Revelation
2009/3/18
形式:ハードカバー
Bernarr Macfadden is my new personal hero. Mr. America is a real revelation , one of those rare glimpses into a forgotten piece of history that shaped this nation. Or at least this nation's fascination with fitness. Yoga? Macfadden was on to it. Body Building? Macfadden helped popularize it. Dieting, daily workouts, strange and exotic body cleanses,? Macfadden pioneered the trends. He was where it all began.
With such a strong character to guide his biography, Mr. Adams wouldn't need to work very hard to craft a compelling read. But he does work hard, incredibly so, and that's what makes Mr. America the gem that it is. Adams has sorted through personal documents, talked to as many sources as he could find, and synthesized what must have been a mountain of information into a simple but hugely entertaining portrait of an eccentric and well-connected publishing magnate who made Americans care about fitness.
The writing is strong and clear, and Adams has a sharp wit that he does not hesitate to employ. By far, Mr. America is the most fun I've had with a biography in a very, very long time.
With such a strong character to guide his biography, Mr. Adams wouldn't need to work very hard to craft a compelling read. But he does work hard, incredibly so, and that's what makes Mr. America the gem that it is. Adams has sorted through personal documents, talked to as many sources as he could find, and synthesized what must have been a mountain of information into a simple but hugely entertaining portrait of an eccentric and well-connected publishing magnate who made Americans care about fitness.
The writing is strong and clear, and Adams has a sharp wit that he does not hesitate to employ. By far, Mr. America is the most fun I've had with a biography in a very, very long time.
5 人中、5人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
A Great Read About An Astonishing Character
2009/4/15
形式:ハードカバー
If you've never heard of Bernarr MacFadden -- as I hadn't prior to stumbling upon this book -- he's the man invented tabloid culture (without him there would be no TMZ, Access Hollywood or Perez Hilton), introduced America to the concept of "physical fitness", created the first "fad diet" and drew up the blueprints for the "sexual revolution". I could go on and on about everything else McFadden managed to pack into his years on the planet... In short (I know, too late), this is one of those books that proves truth can be way more entertaining than fiction. During the week or so I spent reading it, I found myself relaying one amazing MacFadden story after another to everyone I knew because, truthfully, I couldn't believe that such a bizarre, wild, eccentric personality could have been forgotten for half a decade without at least a Ron Howard bio-pic making it to the screen. If this sounds like a rave, I guess it is. It was an unexpected read that most definitely exceeded my expectations.
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