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Real NASCAR - White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France (Paperback, New edition)
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Real NASCAR - White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France (Paperback, New edition)
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Loot Price R559
Discovery Miles 5 590
You Save R104 (16%)
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In this history of the stock car racing circuit known as NASCAR,
Daniel Pierce offers a revealing new look at the sport from its
postwar beginnings on Daytona Beach and Piedmont dirt tracks
through the early 1970s when the sport spread beyond its southern
roots and gained national recognition. Following NASCAR founder Big
Bill France from his start as a mechanic, Real NASCAR details the
sport's genesis as it has never been shown before. Pierce not only
confirms the popular notion of NASCAR's origins in bootlegging, but
also establishes beyond a doubt the close ties between organized
racing and the illegal liquor industry, a story that readers will
find both fascinating and controversial. Drawing on the memories of
a variety of participants--including highly colorful characters
like Lloyd Seay, Roy Hall, Gober Sosebee, Smokey Yunick, Bunky
Knudsen, Humpy Wheeler, Bobby Isaac, Junior Johnson, and Big Bill
France himself-- Real NASCAR shows how the reputation for wildness
of these racers-by-day and bootleggers-by-night drew throngs of
spectators to the tracks in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s. They came to
watch their heroes maneuver ordinary automobiles at incredible
speed, beating and banging on each other, wrecking spectacularly,
and fighting out their differences in the infield. Although France
faced many challenges--including a fickle Detroit that often seemed
unsure of its support for the sport, safety issues that killed star
drivers and threatened its very existence, and drivers who twice
tried to unionize to gain a bigger piece of the NASCAR pie--by the
early 1970s France and his allies had laid a firm foundation for
what has become today a billion-dollar industry and arguably the
largest spectator sport in America. |In this history of the stock
car racing circuit known as NASCAR, Pierce offers a revealing new
look at the sport from its postwar beginnings on Daytona Beach and
Piedmont dirt tracks through the early 1970s when the sport spread
beyond its southern roots and gained national recognition. The book
not only confirms the popular notion of NASCAR's origins in
bootlegging, but also establishes beyond a doubt the close ties
between organized racing and the illegal liquor industry, a story
that readers will find both fascinating and controversial.
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