Sunday Money
Speed! Lust! Madness! Death! A Hot Lap Around America with Nascar
On Sale: 04/25/2006
Sunday Money
Speed! Lust! Madness! Death! A Hot Lap Around America with Nascar
On Sale: 04/25/2006
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About the Book
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 cliché, 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.
Product Details
- ISBN: 9780060094720
- ISBN 10: 0060094729
- Imprint: Harper Perennial
- On Sale: 04/25/2006
- Pages: 416
- List Price:19.99 CAD
- BISAC1 : SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
- BISAC2 : SPORTS & RECREATION / Motor Sports
- BISAC3 : SPORTS & RECREATION / Sociology of Sports