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Muscletown USA: Bob Hoffman & the manly culture of York Barbell by Fair, John D - 2000
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University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. Paperback. xii, 420p., preface, introduction, epilogue, notes, index, b&w photos throughout, very good reprint trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Weight-training and bodybuilding history in America which had its capitol in York, PA.
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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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