John D Fair
Biographic Data
| ID | 1166368 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John D Fair |
| GIVEN NAMES | John D |
| FAMILY NAME | Fair |
| SIGNATURE | FAIR J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Auburn University at Montgomery |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Vim and Vigour
Eugen Sandow and eugenics
Eugen Sandow gained renown in fin de siecle Britain as a strongman and bodybuilder and in the early twentieth century as a publicist, entrepreneur, and crusader for physical fitness on the international scene. Much less is known about his underlying zeal for eugenics, a movement that coincided with Social Darwinism as an evolutionary theory and practice that culminated during his most productive years. A pioneer in the burgeoning field of physica…
The Heart Has Its Reasons”
At age thirty-eight, Colorado professor Conrad Cotter, who led a sedentary lifestyle, suffered two heart attacks. Despite his family history of heart disease, he recuperated by quitting smoking, reducing his weight, relocating to a sea-level city, and exercising regularly. Curiously, he adopted powerlifting, an activity suspected of unduly straining the heart, for rehabilitation. After participating in it for a decade, he was not only stronger an…
Beautiful Beach Bodies and Muscle Heads
Uneasily situated between counterculture images projected by James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and the dawning of the “Age of Aquarius” a decade later, there emerged a motion picture interlude of innocence on the beaches of Southern California. It was fostered by Gidget (1959) and then thirty “surf and sex” movies that focused on young, attractive bodies and beach escapades rather than serious social causes.The films, argues Kirse May, “…
Lifting ‘Round the World
In the first visit by American athletes to the Soviet Union since World War II, the U.S. weightlifting team included 340-pound Paul Anderson who startled the sports world in June of 1955 by pressing a world record 402 pounds, exceeding that of his Soviet adversary by 77 pounds. The admiration evoked by his colossal size and strength encouraged the State Department to send Anderson and other weightlifters on goodwill tours to counter Soviet expans…
Mr. America
For most of the twentieth century, the "Mr. America" image epitomized muscular manhood. From humble beginnings in 1939 at a small gym in Schenectady, New York, the Mr. America Contest became the world's premier bodybuilding event over the next thirty years. Rooted in ancient Greek virtues of health, fitness, beauty, and athleticism, it showcased some of the finest specimens of American masculinity. Interviewing nearly one hundred major figures in…
Shelly McKenzie. Getting Physical
Fitness enthusiasts and athletes in their sixties and beyond will remember the days when physical educators and coaches warned of the dangers of muscle-binding and overexertion. Weight training and distance running were taboo. Shelly McKenzie's well-crafted study of fitness culture in America from the 1950s through the 1980s sheds new light on how an obverse movement challenged this post–World War II consensus. Pent-up demand for consumer goods a…
H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports
Research Article| October 01 2013 H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports John D. Fair John D. Fair University of Texas at Austin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2013) 40 (3): 483–487. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.40.3.483 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation John D. Fair; H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physi…
The Georgia Slave Narratives
The Intellectual JFK
He had a Boston accent which is very much akin to the British, and then he responded to the British love of culture and literature. ...I think Jack responded to all that because he did like literature ... and then he was interested in government, and of course, he did enjoy seeing all the beautiful houses, because they were connected more or less with history.1 Few studies on the life and political education of John F. Kennedy have failed to ment…
Oscar Heidenstam, The Mr Universe Contest, and the Amateur Ideal in British Bodybuilding
Journal Article Oscar Heidenstam, The Mr Universe Contest, and the Amateur Ideal in British Bodybuilding Get access John D. Fair John D. Fair * Georgia College & State University * [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 396–423, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwl023 Published: 01 January 2006
Redefining the Bonds of Commonwealth, 1939-1948
Muscletown USA
Journal Article Muscletown USA: Bob Hoffman and the Manly Culture of York Barbell. By John D. Fair. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. xii, 420 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-271-01854-2. Paper, $23.50, ISBN 0-271-01855-0.) Get access Ted Ownby Ted Ownby University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 3, D…
F. S. Oliver, Alexander Hamilton, and the 'American Plan' for Resolving Britain's Constitutional Crises, 1903-1921
Frederick Scott Oliver was a Scottish businessman, writer, political pundit, and friend of many leading Conservatives. Distressed by the serious constitutional problems confronting Britain at the turn of the century, he proposed solutions based on the ideas and methods of the founders of the United States of America in the late eighteenth century. These notions were set forth in Oliver's biography, Alexander Hamilton (1906), and helped inspire th…
The iron game and capitalist culture
Xlix
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The Carnarvon Diaries and Royal Mediation in 1884
The Carnarvon Diaries and Royal Mediation in 1884 Get access JOHN D. FAIR JOHN D. FAIR Auburn UniversityMontgomery Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVI, Issue CCCCXVIII, January 1991, Pages 97–116, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVI.CCCCXVIII.97 Published: 01 January 1991
Olympic weightlifting and the introduction of steroids
(1988). Olympic weightlifting and the introduction of steroids: a statistical analysis of world championship results, 1948–72. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 96-114
The Norwegian Campaign and Winston Churchill's Rise to Power in 1940
in May 1940. Although Winston Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty, was largely responsible for the ill-fated Norwegian campaign, he almost completely escaped public condemnation and even displaced Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister. 'Failure at Trondheim! Stalemate at Narvik! Such in the first week in May were the only results we could show to the British nation, to the Allies, and to the world,' Churchill later remarked in The Gathering…
Party Voting Behaviour in the British House of Commons 1886–1918
The Chamberlain‐Temperley Connection
Notes1. Donald Watt, “The Historiography of Appeasement,” in Alan Sked and Chris Cook, eds., Crisis and Controversy, Essays in Honour of A.J.P. Taylor (New York, 1976), 110–11.2. Ernest R. May, ‘Lessons’ of the Past: the Use and Misuse of History in American Foreign Policy (New York, 1973). Remarkably, May almost totally ignores the Dulles era in formulating his thesis. Nor does he recognize the obvious prescience of young John F. Kennedy's book …
Culture and Anarchy in Ireland, 1890-1939 . F. S. L. Lyons
British Interparty Conferences
Walter Bagehot, Royal Mediation, and the Modern British Constitution, 1869‐1931
Additional informationNotes on contributorsWalter BagehotThe author is Associate Professor of History at Auburn University at Montgomery
The Conservative Basis for the Formation of the National Government of 1931
The creation of the National Government of 1931 has been a theme of unending comment and controversy. Politicians and writers of the left, with their party suddenly decapitated and bereft of office, not surprisingly were bitter. Their tendency was to castigate anyone who had played an obvious role in the crisis. Therefore, Ramsay MacDonald, who presided over the change, has been branded a traitor by his former colleagues and by later generations …
British Interparty Conferences
The Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921
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The Georgia Slave Narratives
The iron game and capitalist culture
Party Voting Behaviour in the British House of Commons 1886–1918
The Conservative Basis for the Formation of the National Government of 1931
The creation of the National Government of 1931 has been a theme of unending comment and controversy. Politicians and writers of the left, with their party suddenly decapitated and bereft of office, not surprisingly were bitter. Their tendency was to castigate anyone who had played an obvious role in the crisis. Therefore, Ramsay MacDonald, who presided over the change, has been branded a traitor by his former colleagues and by later generations …
Royal mediation in 1884
Journal Article Royal mediation in 1884: a reassessment Get access JOHN D. FAIR JOHN D. FAIR Auburn UniversityMontgomery Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue CCCXLVI, January 1973, Pages 100–113, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXVIII.CCCXLVI.100 Published: 01 January 1973
The Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921
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Royal mediation in 1884
Journal Article Royal mediation in 1884: a reassessment Get access JOHN D. FAIR JOHN D. FAIR Auburn UniversityMontgomery Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue CCCXLVI, January 1973, Pages 100–113, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXVIII.CCCXLVI.100 Published: 01 January 1973
The Irish Disestablishment Conference of 1869
The Reform Bill of 1867 inaugurated a new era in the political history of Great Britain. By enlarging the electorate and increasing the possibilities for party organisation this Act brought to a close that period of the mid-nineteenth century when parties were in a state of flux. This was manifested in Parliament by a growing disparity between the popularly elected House of Commons and the hereditary based House of Lords. In 1868 and 1869 these b…
Politicians, Historians, and the War
Britain and Irish Separatism
Book Review| October 01 1978 Britain and Irish Separatism: From the Fenians to the Free State, 1867–1922 by Thomas E. Hachey Britain and Irish Separatism: From the Fenians to the Free State, 1867–1922. By Hachey, Thomas E.. Chicago: Rand McNally College Publishing Company, 1977. Pp. xii, 343. John D. Fair John D. Fair Auburn University at Montgomery Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1978) 77 (4):…
Walter Bagehot, Royal Mediation, and the Modern British Constitution, 1869‐1931
Additional informationNotes on contributorsWalter BagehotThe author is Associate Professor of History at Auburn University at Montgomery
The Conservative Basis for the Formation of the National Government of 1931
The creation of the National Government of 1931 has been a theme of unending comment and controversy. Politicians and writers of the left, with their party suddenly decapitated and bereft of office, not surprisingly were bitter. Their tendency was to castigate anyone who had played an obvious role in the crisis. Therefore, Ramsay MacDonald, who presided over the change, has been branded a traitor by his former colleagues and by later generations …
Culture and Anarchy in Ireland, 1890-1939 . F. S. L. Lyons
British Interparty Conferences
The Chamberlain‐Temperley Connection
Notes1. Donald Watt, “The Historiography of Appeasement,” in Alan Sked and Chris Cook, eds., Crisis and Controversy, Essays in Honour of A.J.P. Taylor (New York, 1976), 110–11.2. Ernest R. May, ‘Lessons’ of the Past: the Use and Misuse of History in American Foreign Policy (New York, 1973). Remarkably, May almost totally ignores the Dulles era in formulating his thesis. Nor does he recognize the obvious prescience of young John F. Kennedy's book …
Party Voting Behaviour in the British House of Commons 1886–1918
The Norwegian Campaign and Winston Churchill's Rise to Power in 1940
in May 1940. Although Winston Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty, was largely responsible for the ill-fated Norwegian campaign, he almost completely escaped public condemnation and even displaced Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister. 'Failure at Trondheim! Stalemate at Narvik! Such in the first week in May were the only results we could show to the British nation, to the Allies, and to the world,' Churchill later remarked in The Gathering…
Olympic weightlifting and the introduction of steroids
(1988). Olympic weightlifting and the introduction of steroids: a statistical analysis of world championship results, 1948–72. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 96-114
The Carnarvon Diaries and Royal Mediation in 1884
The Carnarvon Diaries and Royal Mediation in 1884 Get access JOHN D. FAIR JOHN D. FAIR Auburn UniversityMontgomery Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVI, Issue CCCCXVIII, January 1991, Pages 97–116, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVI.CCCCXVIII.97 Published: 01 January 1991
The iron game and capitalist culture
Xlix
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
F. S. Oliver, Alexander Hamilton, and the 'American Plan' for Resolving Britain's Constitutional Crises, 1903-1921
Frederick Scott Oliver was a Scottish businessman, writer, political pundit, and friend of many leading Conservatives. Distressed by the serious constitutional problems confronting Britain at the turn of the century, he proposed solutions based on the ideas and methods of the founders of the United States of America in the late eighteenth century. These notions were set forth in Oliver's biography, Alexander Hamilton (1906), and helped inspire th…
Muscletown USA
Journal Article Muscletown USA: Bob Hoffman and the Manly Culture of York Barbell. By John D. Fair. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. xii, 420 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-271-01854-2. Paper, $23.50, ISBN 0-271-01855-0.) Get access Ted Ownby Ted Ownby University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 3, D…
Redefining the Bonds of Commonwealth, 1939-1948
The Intellectual JFK
He had a Boston accent which is very much akin to the British, and then he responded to the British love of culture and literature. ...I think Jack responded to all that because he did like literature ... and then he was interested in government, and of course, he did enjoy seeing all the beautiful houses, because they were connected more or less with history.1 Few studies on the life and political education of John F. Kennedy have failed to ment…
Oscar Heidenstam, The Mr Universe Contest, and the Amateur Ideal in British Bodybuilding
Journal Article Oscar Heidenstam, The Mr Universe Contest, and the Amateur Ideal in British Bodybuilding Get access John D. Fair John D. Fair * Georgia College & State University * [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 396–423, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwl023 Published: 01 January 2006
The Georgia Slave Narratives
H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports
Research Article| October 01 2013 H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports John D. Fair John D. Fair University of Texas at Austin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2013) 40 (3): 483–487. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.40.3.483 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation John D. Fair; H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physi…
Mr. America
For most of the twentieth century, the "Mr. America" image epitomized muscular manhood. From humble beginnings in 1939 at a small gym in Schenectady, New York, the Mr. America Contest became the world's premier bodybuilding event over the next thirty years. Rooted in ancient Greek virtues of health, fitness, beauty, and athleticism, it showcased some of the finest specimens of American masculinity. Interviewing nearly one hundred major figures in…
Shelly McKenzie. Getting Physical
Fitness enthusiasts and athletes in their sixties and beyond will remember the days when physical educators and coaches warned of the dangers of muscle-binding and overexertion. Weight training and distance running were taboo. Shelly McKenzie's well-crafted study of fitness culture in America from the 1950s through the 1980s sheds new light on how an obverse movement challenged this post–World War II consensus. Pent-up demand for consumer goods a…
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