Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

In his signature larger-than-life style, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s <i>Total Recall </i>is a revealing self-portrait of his illustrious, controversial, and truly unique life.<BR><BR>The greatest immigrant success story of our time.<BR> <BR>His story is unique, and uniquely entertaining, and he tells it brilliantly in these pages.<BR> <BR>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.<BR> <BR>By the age of twenty-one, he was living in Los Angeles and had been crowned Mr. Universe.<BR> <BR>Within five years, he had learned English and become the greatest bodybuilder in the world.<BR> <BR>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 <i>Stay Hungry</i>.<BR> <BR>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.<BR> <BR>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.<BR> <BR>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.<BR> <BR>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.<BR> <BR>Until now, he has never told the full story of his life, in his own voice.<BR> <BR>Here is Arnold, with total recall.