Tycoons, Scorchers, and Outlaws: The Class War That Shaped American Auto Racing (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137322500)

Vendor: T. Messer-Kruse
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
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Tycoons, Scorchers, and Outlaws: The Class War That Shaped American Auto Racing

$54.99

Tycoons, Scorchers, and Outlaws: The Class War That Shaped American Auto Racing

$54.99
Format: Hardcover
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Tycoons, Scorchers, and Outlaws charts how auto racing was shaped by class tensions between the millionaires who invented it, the public who resented their seizure of the public roads, and the working class drivers who viewed the sport as a vocation, not a leisured pursuit.

Author: T. Messer-Kruse
ISBN-10: 1137322500
ISBN-13: 9781137322500
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Language: English
Published: 11/29/2013
Pages: 146
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d
By T. Messer-Kruse
By T. Messer-Kruse
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Timothy Messer-Kruse is a professor in the School of Cultural and Critical Studies at Bowling Green State University, USA, where he also served as professor and chair of the Ethnic Studies Department. He is the author of numerous books including The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists which won the best book prize from the journal Labor History in 2012.

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