Weakness Is a Crime: The Life of Bernarr Macfadden
book · 1991
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SUMMARY
Robert Ernst's scholarly biography (Syracuse University Press, 1991; ISBN 9780815625124), the standard book-length account of Macfadden's life and the Physical Culture publishing empire. Its title takes up Macfadden's own physical-culture slogan, 'Weakness Is a Crime.' Cited as the secondary-source authority for Macfadden's career as promoter and publisher and for the structure of his health-and-longevity enterprise. The ISBN resolver returns a 1990 cataloguing year; the imprint year is 1991 per the archive.org item record and the LCCN (90038194) prefix reflects the cataloguing-in-publication date, not the print date.
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Robert Ernst’s Weakness Is a Crime (Syracuse University Press, 1991) is the standard scholarly biography of Bernarr Macfadden. The title quotes Macfadden’s own physical-culture creed. The archive cites it as the secondary authority on Macfadden’s career as a promoter and magazine publisher and on the shape of his health-and-longevity enterprise. A note on the year: the ISBN resolver reports a 1990 cataloguing year, but the print imprint is 1991 (the LCCN prefix 90038194 reflects the cataloguing-in-publication date rather than the date the book was issued); the archive cites the 1991 imprint.