Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story - Hardcover

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1451662432 ISBN 13: 9781451662436

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2012

Synopsis

One of the most anticipated autobiographies of this generation, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Total Recall is the candid story by one of the world’s most remarkable actors, businessmen, and world leaders.

THE GREATEST IMMIGRANT SUCCESS STORY OF OUR TIME

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.

Until now, he has never told the full story of his life, in his own voice.

Here is Arnold, with total recall.

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Review

Indispensable for fans - Sunday Times

Fascinating behind-the-scenes trivia - Sunday Express

A classic reworking of the American dream: dream hard, work hard, aim high, let no one stand in your way - Daily Express

This autobiography shows Arnie to be a man of greater substance - Daily Business Post

Schwarzenegger is extremely engaging company and a highly entertaining story teller --Empire

Fascinating behind-the-scenes trivia --Sunday Express

Schwarzenegger is extremely engaging company and a highly entertaining story teller --Empire

About the Author

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 term as Governor during what was perhaps California's most tumultous decade.

Edition details

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1451662432
• ISBN 13: 9781451662436
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 646