Hardback: "It's not what you get out of life that counts. Break your mirrors! In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. You'll get more satisfaction from having improved your neighbourhood, your town, your state, your country and your fellow human beings than you'll ever get from your muscles, your figure, your automobile, your house or your credit rating. You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior." - Arnold Schwarzenegger, speech at Yale University, 1994.
Here is Arnold, with Total Recall (2012).
His 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, the seventh largest economy in the world.
He led the state through a budget crisis, natural disasters and political turmoil, working across party lines for a better environment, election reforms and bipartisan solutions.
With Maria Shriver, he raised four fantastic children. In the wake of a scandal he brought upon himself, he tried to keep his family together.
Total Recall is the full story of Arnold's life, in his own voice.
About the author: Arnold Schwarzenegger was born in Thal, Austria, in 1947, and served as Governor of California from 2003 to 2011. Before that, he had a long career, starring in such films as the Terminator series: Stay Hungry, Twins, Predator and Junior. His first book, Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder, was a bestseller when published in 1977 and along with his Encyclopaedia of Modern Bodybuilding, has never been out of prince since.
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