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<b>In his signature larger-than-life style, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s <i>Total Recall </i>is a revealing self-portrait of his illustrious, controversial, and truly unique life.</b><br><br>The greatest immigrant success story of our time.<br> <br> His story is unique, and uniquely entertaining, and he tells it brilliantly in these pages.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> By the age of twenty-one, he was living in Los Angeles and had been crowned Mr. Universe.<br> <br> Within five years, he had learned English and become the greatest bodybuilder in the world.<br> <br> 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 <i>Stay Hungry</i>.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> Thirty-six years after coming to America, the man once known by fellow body­builders as the Austrian Oak was elected governor of California, the seventh largest economy in the world.<br> <br> He led the state through a budget crisis, natural disasters, and political turmoil, working across party lines for a better environment, election reforms, and bipartisan solutions.<br> <br> With Maria Shriver, he raised four fantastic children. In the wake of a scandal he brought upon himself, he tried to keep his family together.<br> <br> Until now, he has never told the full story of his life, in his own voice.<br> <br> Here is Arnold, with total recall.