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MM: I think most people would like to know what triggered your interest in Macfadden. How and when did you first get the idea that you would write a book about him?

MA: I was fascinated by Macfadden’s story from the first time I picked up a copy of ‘Physical Culture’ around 1997, but I didn’t start thinking seriously about a book until around 2002.

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I read Robert Ernst’s fine Macfadden biography, of course, so the idea that a fresh look at Macfadden was needed didn’t occur to me. Then coincidentally I was wasting time surfing the internet at work one day and found a copy of Mary Macfadden’s ‘Dumbbells and Carrot Strips’ for sale. I started reading it while flying to Indianapolis to write a story for the New 
York Times Magazine, and somewhere over, let’s say Cincinnati, I realized that Macfadden’s life might make a good book for a modern audience.

MM: You've mentioned that you wrote the book in your spare time