In his signature larger-than-life style, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s memoir is a revealing self-portrait of his illustrious, controversial, and truly unique life.
The greatest immigrant success story of our time. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s story is unique—and uniquely entertaining—and 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 world’s 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.

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Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Chapter 1: Out of Austria
- Chapter 2: Building a Body
- Chapter 3: Confessions of a Tank Driver
- Chapter 4: Mr. Universe
- European Bodybuilding Photographs
- Chapter 5: Greetings from Los Angeles
- Chapter 6: Lazy Bastards
- Chapter 7: Experts in Marble and Stone
- Chapter 8: Learning American
- Chapter 9: The Greatest Muscle Show Ever
- U.S. Bodybuilding Photographs
- Chapter 10: Stay Hungry
- Chapter 11: Pumping Iron
- Chapter 12: Dream Girl
- Chapter 13: Maria and Me
- Chapter 14: What Doesn’t Kill Us Makes Us Stronger
- Chapter 15: Becoming American
- Chapter 16: The Terminator
- Movie Photographs
- Chapter 17: Marriage and Movies
- Chapter 18: Comic Timing
- Chapter 19: The Real Life of a Terminator
- Chapter 20: The Last Action Hero
- Chapter 21: Heart Trouble
- Chapter 22: Family Guy
- Family Photographs
- Chapter 23: A Political Proposition
- Chapter 24: Total Recall
- Chapter 25: The Governator
- Chapter 26: Comeback
- Chapter 27: Who Needs Washington?
- Chapter 28: The Real Life of a Governator
- Poltical Photographs
- Chapter 29: The Secret
- Chapter 30: Arnold’s Rules
- Acknowledgments and Sources
- About Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Index
- Copyright
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