Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America

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Journal Article 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.) Get access Susan Curtis Susan Curtis Purdue UniversityWest Lafayette, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 2, September 2002, Pages 657–658, https://doi.org/10.2307/3092244 Published: 01 September 2002