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Little Friedrich Mller was a puny weakling who longed to be athletic and strong like the ancient Roman gladiators. He exercised and exercised. But he to no avail. As a young man, he found himself under the tutelage of a professional body builder. Friedrich worked and worked. He changed his name to Eugen Sandow and he got bigger and stronger. Everyone wanted to become "as strong as Sandow." Inspired by his own experiences body-building, Don Tate tells the story of how Eugen Sandow changed the way people think about strength and exercise and made it a part of everyday life. Backmatter includes more information about Sandow, suggestions for exercise, an author's note, and a bibliography.



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Don Tate

Don Tate is an the illustrator of numerous critically acclaimed books for children, including Carter Reads The Newspaper (Peachtree, 2019) ; No Small Potatoes: Junius G. Groves and his Kingdom in Kansas (Knopf, 2018) ; Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions (Charlesbridge, 2016) ; The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch, (Eerdmans, 2015) ; Hope's Gift (Penguin) ; and The Cart That Carried Martin, (Charlesbridge) .He is the author of Strong As Sandow: How Eugen Sandow Became The Strongest Man on Earth (Charlesbridge, 2017) ; Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton (Peachtree, 2015) ; and It Jes' Happened: When Bill Traylor Started To Draw (Lee & Low Books, 2012) . Don is a two-time recipient of an Ezra Jack Keats Book Author Award, the winner of a 2016 Christopher Award, and a 2016 Texas Institute of Letters book awards recipient.His forthcoming book, William Still and his Freedom Stories: Father of the Underground Railroad will publish with Peachtree Publishing in November 2020.



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