Mr. Everything: The True Life Story of a Bodybuilding Pioneer Paperback – Large Print, September 17, 2025

Mr. Everything is the inspirational story of love, determination, and sacrifice that created one of the pioneers of modern bodybuilding written by his son and a lifelong friend and published author/retired school teacher named Becky Carnaby Davis. The book is a unique part biography and documentary, part collection of bedtime stories and part collection of life lessons/personal development nuggets. Brief timeline breakdown...George Eiferman was a scrawny Jewish high school kid in Philadelphia in the early 1940s. He was too short to play basketball, too slow to run track, and too small for football. He was also bullied relentlessly.One day, George decided to run away from home. He faked some documents and joined the Navy to fight the Nazis in World War II. His only skill set was playing the trumpet, so they made him the bugler on the ship.This made George a target of even more bullying. When one of the shipmates pushed him off the ship into the water one day while he was blowing his horn...the only way to get back on deck was to swim around the ship and climb up the anchor chain! When he resurfaced on deck, the bully that pushed him off planted the seed to do that EVERY day and maybe he wouldn't be such a wimp!?!?!? So, he started lifting buckets of water, swam laps around the boat, did chin ups on the crane and climbed the anchor chain and got off the ship in the best shape of his life!After the war, George couldn't find work and someone at the gym suggested he enter the Mr. Philadelphia bodybuilding contest...George won!With his newfound confidence, George decided to move to California. He had heard about a beach where the best bodybuilders in the country trained, got sun, and met beautiful girls.George arrived in California with just $20 in his pocket. But he quickly found work as a lifeguard at Muscle Beach.In 1948, George won the Mr. America bodybuilding contest. He became one of the early pioneers of modern bodybuilding and helped to make Muscle Beach famous.One day, George met a beautiful aspiring opera singer named Tobi Faye. They fell in love and got married. Tobi expressed her love and unique relationship with George with dialogue like "YOU'RE MR. AMERICA TO THEM...YOU'RE MR. EVERYTHING TO ME!"George and Tobi lived happily ever after... or so it seemed.After winning Mr. America, George became a bit too famous. He was involved with movie stars like Mae West, Debbie Reynolds, Liz Taylor, and even Marilyn Monroe.Infidelities and the guilt of the breakup and discomfort with the fame led George to take a travel position with Unified School Districts doing assemblies all over the country promoting fitness and nutrition to kids as an ambassador of health.Years on the road and gossip of being a "has been" led him back to Muscle Beach in 1960 where he trained aggressively enough to win the Mr. Universe in 1962 becoming the only bodybuilder in history at that time to have championships that (1948-1962) far apart.In 1965, Tobi and George reconnected and got remarried. They had two children together, Leah and Eric.However, the marriage didn't last. Nine years later, they divorced again stating irreconcilable differences.George went on to open a gyms in Hawaii, California, and the first 24-hour gym in the country in Las Vegas. He famously hosted Elvis Presley, Stallone, Arnold and countless other celebrities that would come to Vegas to train.In 1985, George was inducted into the Bodybuilding Hall of Fame. He passed away in 2002 after a 3 year battle with complications from cardiac arrest on a plane flying to Hawaii.Some of the last words he would ever hear were from his son while saying his goodbyes bedside at the hospital in his finals days..."YOU WERE MR. UNIVERSE TO THEM. YOU WERE MR. EVERYTHING TO ME!" Read more