Fantastic / Leamer, Laurence

The author presents the definitive biography of Arnold Schwarzenegger, his rise to fame and power, and his marriage to Maria Shriver. The life of Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of the most extraordinary success stories of our time. An immigrant with a heavy accent from a village in Austria, he became the greatest bodybuilder in history, the number one movie star in the world, the Republican husband of a Kennedy princess, and the governor of the greatest of American states. Fantastic shows how and why this man of willful ambition and limitless drive achieved his unprecedented accomplishments.

Chronicles the life of actor-turned-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger, discussing his childhood in Austria, years as a bodybuilder, movie career, marriage, term as governor, and White House aspirations.