Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man

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Author	: John F. Kasson
Publisher	: Macmillan
Total Pages	: 278
Release	: 2001
ISBN-10	: 9780809088621
ISBN-13	: 0809088622
Rating	: 4/5 (21 Downloads)

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Book Synopsis Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man by : John F. Kasson

Book excerpt: Concern with the white male body - with exhibiting it and with the perils to it - suffused American culture in the years before World War I, he suggests, and continues with us today."--BOOK JACKET.

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