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

Author: John F Kasson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 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...Read more