True Myths: Life and Times of Arnold Schwarzenegger

by NigelAndrews (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1995

  $3.25

  A biography of Arnold Schwarzenegger, one of the most successful modern screen actors and star of films such as Twins , The Terminator and Total Recall . The book looks at the rags-to-riches story of the ambitious Austrian who married a Kennedy. Is Arnold Schwarzenegger a bizarre construct of the PR industry, or is he the product of late-century Aryan supremacism, on a path which will eventually lead him to the White House? What makes him a freak achiever is not just his origin - the only sportsman ever to become a Hollywood superstar, let alone the only Austrian - but his ability to be several pairs of complete opposites: outlaw and establishment warrior; patrician and peasant; untried android and grizzled human veteran; hero and villain. He is universally popular and in a career spanning cops, robbers, hitman, special agents, macho kindergarten teachers and over-sized twin brother, Arnold has become the biggest hero in the world by playing the biggest hero in the world.

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  Paperback
  1996

  $3.25

  The strategies of the film star, Arnold Schwarzenegger, are studied and questioned in this biography. His image and political position are analyzed and it is suggested that he has seized on other people's mockery of him and used it to his own advantage.