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978-1-878086-36-5
1-878086-36-7
$13.95 paperback
5 1/2" x 8 1/2"
335 pages
Down Home Press
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To read this book is to
live in the aura of the stock car racing circuit. Jerry Bledsoe
tells it like it is, no holds or language barred. You will have a
grandstand seat with an intimate view of the drivers, great and
small, and their colorful associates. --Bulb Horn
Easily the best handling
of the subject of stock car racing in America....One of those few books
you're going to want to pull out about once a year and read again. Or
pass on to a friend. Or keep in the glove compartment of your car like a
road map of your memories. --Stock Car Racing Magazine
The finest book on any
kind of motor racing. --Car and Driver
Bledsoe's look at the
four-wheeled South is friendly but unsentimental, and his book is a
splendid piece of reporting. --Sports Illustrated
Jerry Bledsoe captures
what the sport is all about--people: down-to-earth, straight-forward,
God-fearing, dirty-nailed people, winning, losing, fighting, loving, and
dying. But his book is more than a good-ol'-boy version of a Harold
Robbins novel. It's a concise, complete history of stock car racing. --Chicago
Daily News
Flat out throbs with
fascinating characters. --Charlotte News
about the author
Jerry Bledsoe is the author of the New York Times Number
One bestseller Bitter Blood, as well as two other national
bestsellers, Blood Games and Before He Wakes, and nearly a
dozen other books, including The
Angel Doll and A Gift
of Angels. He has been a contributing editor for Esquire,
a reporter and columnist for the Greensboro, North Carolina, News and
Record, the Charlotte Observer, and the Louisville Times.
His work has also appeared in the New York Times, the Washington
Post, New York, and many other publications. He lives in
Randolph County, North Carolina, and Carroll County, Virginia.
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