Research Catalog

Title

Real NASCAR : white lightning, red clay, and Big Bill France / Daniel S. Pierce.

Author

Pierce, Daniel S.

Publication

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.

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Details

Description

348 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

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.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• France, William H. 1872-1967
• France, Bill, 1909-1992
• NASCAR (Association)
• Stock car racing > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

In the beginning -- there was Bristol -- The Piedmont hell of a fellow and the origins of stock car racing -- Home-towners going at it tooth and nail : pre-World War II Piedmont stock car racing -- Rough and rowdy : Big Bill, the Atlanta Bootleggers, and the Bootlegger tracks -- A paper dream? : the creation and early years of NASCAR -- Darlington, Bamooda shorts, Jocko Flocko, and the fabulous Hudson Hornet : NASCAR Grand National, 1950-1954 -- I would have been willing to bet -- we would never have to sleep in the car again : feast and famine, NASCAR, 1955-1958 -- High stakes poker : NASCAR, 1959-1963 -- Give 'em all a shot of whiskey and drop the flag : NASCAR's danger years, 1964-1967 -- The dirt tracks are rapidly becoming a thing of the past : the end of the beginning, 1968-1972 -- Back to Bristol.

ISBN

• 9780807833841 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0807833843 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009039436

OCLC

441211812

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library