Swimming Pretty: The Untold Story of Women in Water by Vicki Valosik
Swimming Pretty: The Untold Story of Women in Water

Vicki Valosik

Swimming Pretty: The Untold Story of Women in Water

Vicki Valosik

432 pages 2024

4 editions

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"If you're not strong enough to swim fast, you're probably not strong enough to swim 'pretty,'" said a young Esther Williams to theater impresario Billy Rose. Since the nineteenth century, tensions between beauty and strength, aesthetics and athle...

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