Sunday Money - Speed! Lust! Madness! Death! A Hot Lap Around America with Nascar

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 cliche, 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.

About the author

Jeff MacGregor, a special contributor for Sports Illustrated, has written for the New York Times, The New Yorker, and Esquire. He is a six-time National Magazine Award nominee and a multiple Pushcart Prize and O. Henry Prize nominee, and his work has been anthologized in The Best American Sports Writing.

Product details

• Authors: Olya/ Evanitsky Evanitsky, Jeff MacGregor
• Assisted by: Olya Evanitsky (Photographs)
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.04.2006
• EAN: 9780060094720
• ISBN: 978-0-06-009472-0
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 24 mm
• Series: P.S.
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Motorsport, motorcycle sport, bicycle sport, aviation sport; SOCIAL SCIENCE: Sociology / Social Theory *, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Sociology / General, HISTORY: Social History, SPORTS & RECREATION: History, SPORTS & RECREATION: Baseball / History, SPORTS & RECREATION: Football, SPORTS & RECREATION: Cultural & Social Aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SPORTS & RECREATION: Motor Sports / General, SPORTS & RECREATION: Motor Sports / Automobile Racing