Muscle, Smoke, & Mirrors: Volume I

The research for this extensive, two volume project...

represents a comprehensive effort to establish a complete context from which the sport of bodybuilding arose.

"Muscle, Smoke & Mirrors" is the rise and fall of what was truly once an extraordinary discipline associated with a term known as "Physical Culture". Experience what bodybuilding was originally and learn just exactly what "Physical Culture" really is.

See what growing philanthropic power flexed its financial and political musc...