In his signature larger-than-life style, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Total Recall is a revealing self-portrait of his illustrious, controversial, and truly unique life. The greatest immigrant success story of our time. His story is unique, and uniquely entertaining, and he tells it brilliantly in these pages. 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. By the age of twenty-one, he was living in Los Angeles and had been crowned Mr. Universe. Within five years, he had learned English and become the greatest bodybuilder in the world. 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 Stay Hungry. 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. 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. 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. 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. Until now, he has never told the full story of his life, in his own voice. Here is Arnold, with total recall.