Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America

by John F. Kasson

Book Overview

A remarkable new work from one of our premier historians

In his exciting 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 Eugene Sandow, an international vaudeville star and bodybuilder, toured the United States in the 1890s, Florenz Ziegfeld cannily presented him as the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809055473
• ISBN13: 9780809055470
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.2"