Shanon Fitzpatrick is a historian and editorial consultant. Her work, including Body and Nation, coedited with Emily S. Rosenberg, focuses on relationships among twentieth-century mass media, body politics, and empire.
Richly detailed and well-argued...Fitzpatrick has mined a fresh
seam in the quarry of American periodical history, and by setting
it in a new, global, context, she reveals a moment in the formation
of a global media culture. -- Amy Aronson * American Journalism
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A lively, engrossing, and often funny history of Bernarr Macfadden
and the publishing empire he built. Fitzpatrick tells the story of
his journey from hungry orphan weakling to famous bodybuilder,
patriarch, promoter of 'physical culture,' and publishing magnate.
Though long overlooked as a purveyor of low-class, ephemeral pulp,
Macfadden achieved unsurpassed newsstand sales, connected with
leaders such as FDR, Mussolini, and the Pope, and represented
American culture to millions of readers around the world.
Fitzpatrick's work provides insights into strongmen-understood both
literally and figuratively-and their popular appeal, and readers
today will see the unmistakable legacy of his media in the Trump
era and beyond. -- Kristin L. Hoganson, author of The Heartland:
An American History
Absolutely original. Fitzpatrick deftly travels from the Victorian
world of the mid-nineteenth century to the doorstep of our time to
tell Macfadden's story. Her book brims with insights into the
changing, everyday understandings of bodies, sex, material status,
and the individual's place in a social world people found too vast
to perceive and difficult to comprehend. Fitzpatrick shows how
Macfadden's work, from celebrating celebrity bodies to enlisting
readers to create the content to be sold back to them, laid the
foundations for today's media world. -- Charles F. McGovern, author
of Sold American: Consumption and Citizenship, 1890-1945
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