American Zoom: Stock Car Racing--from the Dirt Tracks to Daytona

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Macmillan Pub., 1993 - Sports & Recreation - 493 pages
With five bestsellers to his name, Peter Golenbock has earned a reputation as one of America's best and most successful sports authors. In American Zoom he presents an oral history of stock car racing, as told by great drivers, mechanics, promoters, and others. "A lively, literate, and loving look at the magic of stock car racing".--The Chicago Tribune

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Contents

Introduction
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The Daytona 500 by STP February 16 1992
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Junior JohnsonThe Bootleggers
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Copyright

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American Zoom: Stock Car Racing--from the Dirt Tracks to Daytona
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About the author (1993)

Peter Golenbock is a prolific sports journalist and author. He was born in New York City on July 19, 1946 and raised in Stamford, Connecticut. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1967 and the New York University School of Law in 1970. While at Dartmouth, he began writing about sports for The Daily Dartmouth, which led to stints with the New York Times and the Boston Globe. It was also at Dartmouth where he became friends with Robert Ariel "Red" Rolfe, the former New York Yankees third baseman and the school's athletic director. Rolfe entertained him for hours with stories of the famous Yankees teams of the 1930's, which had a profound impact on Golenbock's unintended career path. After graduating law school, he eventually landed a job in the legal department of Prentice-Hall Publishing. Surprisingly, he was able to convince the head of the trade book division to allow him to write about the Yankees. The resulting book, Dynasty: The New York Yankees 1949-64, became an instant bestseller, the first of many for Golenbock. Among his best-known works to follow include; The Bronx Zoo, Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Balls, with Graig Nettles, Bats, with Davey Johnson, Personal Fouls, a look at corruption in college basketball, and Teammates, a children's book about the relationship between Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese. His latest work is entitled Rage: The Legend of "Baseball Bill" Denehy.

Bibliographic information

TitleAmerican Zoom: Stock Car Racing--from the Dirt Tracks to Daytona
AuthorPeter Golenbock
Editionillustrated
PublisherMacmillan Pub., 1993
ISBN0025446150, 9780025446151
Length493 pages
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Sports & Recreation / Motor Sports / Automobile Racing
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