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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Swoboda's Hidden Women

Swoboda's Hidden Women

Kimball, Janice

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ISBN10: 167521624X
ISBN13: 9781675216248
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 3 2020
Pages: 338
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.76 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The never before told true story of 20th-century bodybuilder turned guru and conman extraordinaire and the manipulation of his three generations of Swoboda Women through letters.When Sara Stevens, a divorcee, and entrepreneur offered to finance a joint business venture, 20th-century icon bodybuilder left his pregnant wife, kidnapped their two young daughters, and when Sara refused to take them in, put them in an orphanage. The couple went on to become millionaires through a mass advertising propaganda machine that sold lessons by mail order subscription to the wealthy and elite by tapping into the creative energy of the universe. Alois then returned for his girls only to father them through intimate, manipulative, letters which they clung to as a source of love. This family saga that begins in 1800 Austria, and ends in Detroit in 1962, takes us through The Omaha frontier, industrial revolution, women's suffrages, syphilis epidemic, great depression, the industrial revolution, polio epidemic and the plight of women. It ends when his third Swoboda daughter sets out to destroy him--and in the process sends her siblings into a rich to rags spiral that does not end until three generations later.

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