The Governator: From Muscle Beach to His Quest for the White House, the Improbable Rise of Arnold Schwarzenegger

by Ian Halperin

Overview

From Muscle Beach to Hollywood superstar to The Governator—Ian Halperin, investigative journalist and # 1 New York Times bestselling author, reveals the untold story about the outsized and often outrageous Arnold Schwarzenegger. The former Austrian bodybuilding icon turned movie action hero turned governor of California is portrayed in all his larger-than-life glory in The Governator, an intimate biography that masterfully chronicles the twists and turns of Schwartzenegger’s amazing true-life Horatio Alger story.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062015402
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	12/15/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	619
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Ian Halperin is the author of ten books, including NewYork Times bestsellers Unmasked: The Final Years ofMichael Jackson and Love & Death: The Murder of KurtCobain. Specializing in undercover investigations, he hasappeared on hundreds of media outlets around the world,including the Today Show, Dateline, The Howard Stern Show, CNN, CBS’s The Early Show, Entertainment Tonight, Inside Edition, The New Yorker, the New York Post, Billboard, the BBC, Paris Match, and the LondonDaily Mail. Halperin is also an acclaimed documentaryfilmmaker and a former co-winner of Rolling Stonemagazine’s College Journalism Award. He has given talks about Hollywood and the music industry as a keynote speaker at many colleges and universities. His blog, ianundercover.com, is one of the world’s leading websites about pop culture.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 Rough Start 3

2 Developing the Look of Power 16

3 The Marnul Rule 32

4 Fascinated by Gerstl 48

5 Training Like a Spartan 61

6 Muscular Private 76

7 A Deafening Roar 87

8 The Age of Schwarzenegger 109

9 Business Learning Curve 126

10 A Modern-Day Moses 136

11 Dumbbell Queers 161

12 Just Like Ali 175

13 Hercules in New York 197

14 Admiring Hitler 210

15 Meeting Maria 251

16 Hollywood Calls 280

17 Box Office Gold 293

18 Cutting Stallone Down to Size 315

19 Tying the Kennedy Knot 344

20 Hardly a Honeymoon 369

21 An Arnold Classic 396

22 Reagan's Resonance 413

23 A Big Comeuppance 428

24 Austrian Gigolo 451

25 California Political Circus 469

26 "Arnold, the American Dream" 495

27 Chastened by Defeat 513

28 Political Hummer 532

29 Planning the Next Act 568

Afterword 589

A Note on Sources 593

Acknowledgments 596