Daniel S. Pierce is associate professor and chair of the History Department at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He is author of The Great Smokies: From Natural Habitat to National Park.
Real NASCAR can be read by racing fans who will share stories about
Bill France and Curtis Turner at lunch tables and bars all over
America at the same time it becomes a key text in the reading lists
of university courses on Southern culture.--Virginia Libraries
[A] fascinating history of the era.--Bookforum
An enthusiastic study that brings to life NASCAR's mythology and
reality. . . . This volume will delight fans; researches will
appreciate the bounty of resources cited. . . .
Recommended.--Choice
Capture[s] the spirit of the early years of rough-and-tumble stock
racing.--Roanoke Times
Details the sport's genesis as it has never been shown before. . .
. A story that readers will find both fascinating and
controversial.--McCormick Messenger
If you're a Southerner, by birth or by inclination, and love
Southern foodways, folkways, highways, and low-ways, you'll lap up
Daniel S. Pierce's Real NASCAR . . . like grits and red-eye gravy,
even if you've never been to a stock car race or watched one on
television.--Our State
Of the many books on NASCAR history, few have been either as
thorough or as authoritative as this one. . . . Pierce's aim to
build his work on documented evidence rather than widely accepted
and oft-repeated lore makes his book a standout. Enthusiastically
recommended.--Library Journal starred review
Rollicking and innovative. . . . A history that is captivating,
insightful, and surprising. . . . Enthusiastically
recommend[ed].--Florida Historical Quarterly
Stories of stock car racing and moonshining come to life through
oral histories. . . . Real NASCAR contains an energy and respect
for its subject that reveals the historian's personal enthusiasm.
Even if you have never been a NASCAR fan, you will find much to
keep you reading in this intriguing history of the sport.--Smoky
Mountain Living
The first comprehensive history of early southern stock-car racing
that reflects its rustic character but not at the expense of
academic rigor.--Journal of Southern History
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