Men and Speed: A Wild Ride Through NASCAR's Breakout Season by Miller, G. Wayne

Men and Speed: A Wild Ride Through NASCAR's Breakout Season (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781586481827)

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Men and Speed: A Wild Ride Through NASCAR's Breakout Season by Miller, G. Wayne

Men and Speed: A Wild Ride Through NASCAR's Breakout Season

$21.99
Men and Speed: A Wild Ride Through NASCAR's Breakout Season by Miller, G. Wayne

Men and Speed: A Wild Ride Through NASCAR's Breakout Season

$21.99
Format: Paperback
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What is it that makes a man strap himself into an automobile and drive it hundreds of laps around a track at speeds surpassing 200 miles per hour? Critically acclaimed journalist G. Wayne Miller decided to find out by spending a year on the NASCAR circuit with Roush Racing's legendary owner Jack Roush and his four title-contending Winston Cup drivers: Mark Martin, Jeff Burton, Matt Kenseth, and Kurt Busch. Miller plumbs the allure of speed and the exploding popularity of stock-car racing through the dramatic 2001 season, which opened with the most famous Daytona 500 in history, when NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt died as his car slammed into the wall on the final turn.

Miller takes us inside the minds and behind the wheels of the of the hottest drivers of the past two seasons, as they cope with the thrills and the dangers along the way to the Cup. Miller also takes us inside Roush Racing, a 125 million business, showing a side of NASCAR that few fans ever get to see. For longtime fans and curious newcomers alike, Men and Speed takes you for a wild ride through the fastest sport in the land.



Author: G. Wayne Miller
ISBN-10: 1586481827
ISBN-13: 9781586481827
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2003
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.48w x 1.00d
By G. Wayne Miller
By G. Wayne Miller
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G. Wayne Miller is a Visiting Fellow at Salve Regina University's Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, in Newport, Rhode Island, where he is director of the center's Story in the Public Square initiative (www.publicstory.org). He is a long-time staff writer for The Providence Journal, where he was member of a Pulitzer Prize-finalist team that covered a deadly nightclub fire.

Miller is the author of seven works of contemporary and historical narrative nonfiction, including Toy Wars, King of Hearts, and Men and Speed. He also wrote and co-produced three documentaries broadcast on PBS, including most recently The Providence Journal's Coming Home, about veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, which was nominated for a New England Emmy and won the regional Edward R. Murrow Award. He is the recipient of the 2013 Roger Williams Independent Voice Award from the Rhode Island International Film Festival. He lives near Providence, RI.

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