Total Recall - My Unbelievably True Life Story

Informationen zum Autor Arnold Schwarzenegger, born in Thal, Austria, in 1947, was Governer of California from 2003–2011. Before that, he had a long career starring in such films as the  Terminator  series;  Stay Hungry , for which he won a Golden Globe; Twins; Predator; and  Junior . His first book, Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder, was a bestseller when publisher in 1977 and has never been out of print since.  The New Modern Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding  has sold more than half a million copies in the past decade.  Total Recall  is his first public reflection on his time as Governor during what was perhaps California’s most tumultous decade. Klappentext In his signature larger-than-life style, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s memoir is a revealing self-portrait of his illustrious, controversial, and truly unique life. The greatest immigrant success story of our time. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s story is unique—and uniquely entertaining—and he tells it brilliantly in these pages. He was born in a year of famine in a small Austrian town, the son of an austere police chief. He dreamed of moving to America to become a bodybuilding champion and a movie star. By the age of twenty-one, he was living in Los Angeles and had been crowned Mr. Universe. Within five years, he had learned English and become the greatest bodybuilder in the world. Within ten years, he had earned his college degree and was a millionaire from his business enterprises in real estate, landscaping, and bodybuilding. He was also the winner of a Golden Globe Award for his debut as a dramatic actor in Stay Hungry . Within twenty years, he was the world’s biggest movie star, the husband of Maria Shriver, and an emerging Republican leader who was part of the Kennedy family. Thirty-six years after coming to America, the man once known by fellow body­builders as the Austrian Oak was elected governor of California. Now, with raw honesty and insight, he tells the story of his life in his own voice. Here is Arnold, with total recall. Leseprobe Chapter 1 Out of Austria I was born into a year of famine. It was 1947, and Austria was occupied by the Allied armies that had defeated Hitler’s Third Reich. In May, two months before I was born, there were hunger riots in Vienna, and in Styria, the southeastern province where we lived, the food shortages were just as bad. Years later, if my mother wanted to remind me about how much she and my father sacrificed to bring me up, she’d tell me how she’d foraged across the countryside, making her way from farm to farm to collect a little butter, some sugar, some grain. She’d be away three days sometimes.  Hamstern,  they called it, like a hamster gathering nuts; scrounging for food was so common. Thal was the name of our very typical farm village. A few hundred families made up the entire population, their houses and farms clustered in hamlets connected by footpaths and lanes. The unpaved main road ran for a couple of kilometers up and down low alpine hills covered with fields and pine forests. We saw very little of the British forces who were in charge—just an occasional truck with soldiers rolling through. But to the east, Russians occupied the area, and we were very conscious of them. The Cold War had begun, and we all lived in fear that the Russian tanks would roll in, and we’d be swallowed up into the Soviet empire. The priests in church would scare the congregation with horror stories of Russians shooting babies in the arms of their mothers. Our house was on the top of a hill along the road, and as I was growing up, it was unusual to see more than one or two cars come through a day. A ruined castle dating back to feudal times was right across from us, one hundred yards from our door. On the next rise were the mayor’s office; the Catholic church where my mother made us all go to Sunday Mass; the ...

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Arnold Schwarzenegger, born in Thal, Austria, in 1947, was Governer of California from 2003–2011. Before that, he had a long career starring in such films as the Terminator series; Stay Hungry, for which he won a Golden Globe; Twins; Predator; and Junior. His first book, Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder, was a bestseller when publisher in 1977 and has never been out of print since. The New Modern Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding has sold more than half a million copies in the past decade. Total Recall is his first public reflection on his time as Governor during what was perhaps California’s most tumultous decade.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Petre, Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2013
• EAN: 9781451662443
• ISBN: 978-1-4516-6244-3
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 230 mm x 42 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies