Racing for America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Racing for America write by James C. Nicholson. This book was released on 2021-04-06. Racing for America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On October 20, 1923, at Belmont Park in New York, Kentucky Derby champion Zev toed the starting line alongside Epsom Derby winner Papyrus, the top colt from England, to compete for a $100,000 purse. Years of Progressive reform efforts had nearly eliminated horse racing in the United States only a decade earlier. But for weeks leading up to the match race that would be officially dubbed the "International," unprecedented levels of newspaper coverage helped accelerate American horse racing's return from the brink of extinction. In this book, James C. Nicholson explores the convergent professional lives of the major players involved in the Horse Race of the Century, including Zev's oil-tycoon owner Harry Sinclair, and exposes the central role of politics, money, and ballyhoo in the Jazz Age resurgence of the sport of kings. Zev was an apt national mascot in an era marked by a humming industrial economy, great coziness between government and business interests, and reliance on national mythology as a bulwark against what seemed to be rapid social, cultural, and economic changes. Reflecting some of the contradiction and incongruity of the Roaring Twenties, Americans rallied around the horse that was, in the words of his owner, "racing for America," even as that owner was reported to have been engaged in a scheme to defraud the United States of millions of barrels of publicly owned oil. Racing for America provides a parabolic account of a nation struggling to reconcile its traditional values with the complexity of a new era in which the US had become a global superpower trending toward oligarchy, and the world's greatest consumer of commercialized spectacle.
Race in America
Race in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Race in America write by Matthew Desmond. This book was released on 2019-11. Race in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Every chapter of Race in America examines how racism intersects with other forms of social division-those based on gender, class, sexuality, ability, religion, and nationhood-as well as how whiteness surrounds us in unnamed ways that produce and reproduce a multitude of privileges for white people. In the revised second edition, students will find relevant examples drawn from the headlines and from their own experiences. Each chapter is updated to include references to recent social movements and popular culture, making the book a more helpful tool for navigating society's critical conversations about race, racism, ethnicity, and white privilege. And throughout the book, students will find updated scholarship and data figures, reflecting the most cutting-edge sociological research"--
Racing Through the Century
Racing Through the Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Racing Through the Century write by Mary Simon. This book was released on 2002. Racing Through the Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written by Eclipse Award-winning author Simon, contributing editor of "Thoroughbred Times, " and filled with dramatic historical photos capturing some of the greatest racing moments, this book will catapult readers into the fast-paced and exciting world of racing. 195 photos.
Formula III Racing in North America
Formula III Racing in North America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Formula III Racing in North America write by Harry Reynolds. This book was released on 2010-03-15. Formula III Racing in North America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This detailed illustrated history describes the emergence in North America of the 500cc displacement road racing cars known as FIIIs. It ranges from the start in 1950 right up to current Vintage racing, with descriptions of the cars, courses, organizations holding race events and the people involved, outlining the vast differences from the east coast vs. the west coast. Period photographs and other graphics are reproduced, many for the first time in print. The transition to FIV cars is discussed. By 1964, the initial movement was over and cars were idled, but within a few years, interest in Vintage road racing began, and gradually, many of the existing cars were reactivated. Both east and west coast Vintage events are covered, again with photographs and other images. This book also contains much road racing history (1950-1964), apart from that of the FIII class. Appendices cover surviving cars (both Coopers and other marques) with recent photographs of most. Other appendices cover racing organizations and a variety of technical topics related to racing the cars. No similar book on this subject exists until now.
City of Speed
City of Speed - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook City of Speed write by Joe Scalzo. This book was released on . City of Speed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
