Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

About this book

In his signature larger-than-life style Arnold Schwarzeneggers memoiris a revealing self-portrait of his illustrious controversial and truly unique life. The greatest immigrant success story of our time. Arnold Schwarzeneggers story is uniqueand uniquely entertainingand he tells it brilliantly in these pages. 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. By the age of twenty-one he was living in Los Angeles and had been crowned Mr. Universe. Within five years he had learned English and become the greatest bodybuilder in the world. 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 Stay Hungry. Within twenty years he was the worlds biggest movie star the husband of Maria Shriver and an emerging Republican leader who was part of the Kennedy family. Thirty-six years after coming to America the man once known by fellow bodybuilders as the Austrian Oak was elected governor of California. Now with raw honesty and insight he tells the story of his life in his own voice. Here is Arnold with total recall.