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Sunday Money: Speed! Lust! Madness! Death! a Hot Lap Around America with NASCAR
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Sunday Money: Speed! Lust! Madness! Death! a Hot Lap Around America with NASCAR Paperback - 2006

by Jeff MacGregor

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A groundling's view of life in the fastest lane of NASCAR is offered by an award-winning writer from "Sports Illustrated" in the tradition of "The Right Stuff" and "Moneyball." 8-page color photo insert.

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From the rear cover

NASCAR racing, once considered no more than a regional circuit of moonshiners pounding around low-country dirt tracks in a cloud of red dust and clich, has somehow become America's fastest-growing spectator sport. With 75 million ardent fans, it is a sports entertainment empire built at the very crossroads of pop culture, corporate commerce, and American mythology -- a platinum-plated, V-8 hero machine.

Smart, funny, and profane, Sunday Money is the kaleidoscopic account of a season on the NASCAR circuit. Driving 48,000 miles in a tiny motor home, Jeff MacGregor and his wife tracked the lives of superstar drivers like Junior Earnhardt and Tony Stewart, their crews, and their fans across the grinding reach of a 40-week season.

More than just a behind-the-scenes chronicle of America's loudest pastime, Sunday Money is the story of a hundred stories, of red states and blue, of splendid Rebels and Yankee hotshoes. It is a brilliant snapshot of American culture -- of race, religion, class, sex, money, and fame -- taken from the window of a moving car.

Details

  • Title Sunday Money: Speed! Lust! Madness! Death! a Hot Lap Around America with NASCAR
  • Author Jeff MacGregor
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial, Scarborough, ON, Canada
  • Publication date 2006-04-25
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780060094720 / 0060094729
  • Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.98 x 5.4 x 0.98 in (20.27 x 13.72 x 2.49 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: NASCAR
  • Category Sports & Recreation
  • Library of Congress subjects Stock car drivers - United States, NASCAR (Association)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.7

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Citations

  • New York Times, 06/04/2006, Page 44

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