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- Title Muscletown USA: Bob Hoffman and the Manly Culture of York Barbell
- Author John D. Fair
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Second Printing
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penn State University Press, University Park, PA, U.S.A.
- Date 1999-05-15
- Features Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780271018553 / 0271018550
- Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.02 x 1.18 in (22.86 x 15.29 x 3.00 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Geographic Orientation: Pennsylvania
- Library of Congress subjects Hoffman, Bob, Weight lifters - United States - Biography
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-39333
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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- Univ PR Books for Public Libry, 01/01/2000, Page 35
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New. From the 1930s to the 1980s, the capital of weightlifting in America was York, Pennsylvania, the home of the York Barbell Company. Bob Hoffman, the founder of York Barbell, propagated an ideology of success for Americans seeking physical improvement. Often called the "Father of World Weightlifting," Hoffman was a pioneer in marketing barbells and health foods. He popularized weight training and inaugurated a golden age of American weightlifting. Muscletown USA-part biography, part business history, and part sports history-chronicles how Hoffman made York the mecca of manly culture for millions of followers worldwide. Hoffman created his so-called muscle empire out of an oil-burner business that he started in the early 1920s. Within a decade, his passion for sport exceeded his need to produce oil burners and by the outset of the Depression he began manufacturing barbells at the factory. He soon discovered a willing public of aspiring weightlifters like himself who would buy not…
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