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Nov 2021
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Part One: How the First Fitness Influenc...

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Robert is joined by Caitlin Durante to discuss Bernarr MacFadden.

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  1. http://web.archive.org/web/20150915124002/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123750174381989343https://sites.edb.utexas.edu/stark/publications/building-american-supermen-bernarr-macfaddenbenito-mussolini-and-american-fascism-in-the-1930s/
  2. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346917559_Racialized_Surrogates_in_Bernarr_Macfadden's_Physical_Culture 
  3. https://sites.lib.jmu.edu/circulating/2021/01/21/circulating-physical-culture-by-catherine-keyser/
  4. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2015/may/08/muscular-christianity-and-american-sports-undying-love-of-violence 
  5. Adams, Mark. Mr. America (p. 84). HarperCollins e-books. Kindle Edition.
  6. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/12/wellness-influencers-vaccine-misinformation/
  7. https://www.americanheritage.com/true-story-bernard-macfadden#6
  8. https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a23610/strange-tale-historic-fitness-guru-bernarrmacfadden/
  9. https://www.historynet.com/putting-fad-macfadden.htm

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