Real NASCAR White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France

Name: Real NASCAR White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France
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ISBN: 9781469609911

ISBN-10: 1469609916

ISBN-13: 9781469609911

Edition: 2013

Authors: Daniel S. Pierce

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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…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 8/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 0.132
Language: English

Daniel S. Pierce is associate professor and chair of the History Department at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He is author of The Great Smokies: From Natural Habitat to National Park.