| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2

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Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America. By John F. Kasson. (New York: Hill & Wang, 2001. x, 256 pp. $26.00, ISBN 0-8090-8862-2.)

It all started with a family portrait. John F. Kasson's great-grandfather—naked from the waist up, back to the camera, and fists clenched to show off his muscles—posed on his forty-fifth birthday in 1904. In Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man, Kasson makes sense of this photograph by examining turn-of-the-century masculine ideals and images and by reflecting on the ways social and cultural change shaped men's attitudes toward their bodies, fired their imaginations, and inflamed deep-seated anxieties. The result is a fine cultural history of masculinity. . . .

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