The Chequered Past - 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 The Chequered Past write by David Anderson Charters. This book was released on 2007-01-01. The Chequered Past available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the forty-year period between 1951 and 1991, Canadian sports car competition underwent a massive change, transforming itself from an amateur recreational pastime to a commercialized profession and from an individual sport to a spectacle for mass consumption. The Chequered Past is the story of the struggle over power and purpose within the Canadian auto sport that led to this transformation. The first comprehensive history of sports car racing and rallying in Canada, The Chequered Past traces the efforts of the national governing body - the Canadian Auto Sport Clubs (CASC) - to bring its sports car competition up to a 'world class' level, and to manage the consequences of those efforts in the second half of the twentieth century. David Charters traces the social origins of the sport and the major trends that shaped it: professionalism, technological change, rising costs, and the influence of commercial sponsors. Charters argues that while early enthusiasts set the sport on a course toward professionalism that would eventually produce world-class Canadian events and racers, that course would also ultimately change the purpose of the sport: from personal recreation to mass entertainment. As technological innovations drove up the costs of competing at the top ranks, racers were forced to rely on sponsors, who commercialized and ultimately gained control of the sport. The end result, Charters argues, was the marginalization of the amateur competitor and of the CASC itself. Based on extensive research into the CASC's records and dozens of interviews with former competitors and officials, The Chequered Past opens a window into the rich but virtually unknown history of the auto sport, and claims for it a place in Canadian sports history.
Checkered Past
Checkered Past - 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 Checkered Past write by Peter Schlesinger. This book was released on 2003-10. Checkered Past available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Fascinated with the rich tradition and youthful creativity of London in the 1960s and longing to leave suburban America, a wide-eyed twenty-year-old Californian named Peter Schlesinger arrived in 1968 with his partner, David Hockney, to study painting at the Slade School of Art. He stayed on for ten years and moved in some of the city's most intriguing social and artistic circles. Manolo Blahnik, Paloma Picasso, Ossie Clark, Cecil Beaton, Bianca Jagger, Christopher Isherwood, and Bryan Ferry - all became friends of the bright and talented Schlesinger, along with other prominent figures in the worlds of art, ballet, music, photography, film, and society." "Schlesinger was one of Hockney's favorite models and he appears in many of his most important paintings of this period, but he was a gifted artist in his own right, with a tireless interest in documenting the amazing world of London bohemia in which he found himself. His privileged position during these extraordinary years resulted in literally thousands of intimate photographs of friends and acquaintances in everyday situations, taken both at home in London and on numerous trips to continental Europe. Featuring 180 of the most artful and revealing images, Checkered Past guides us with a wry eye through the artists' studios, fashion shows, grand country houses, and gay discos that made London such a magnet during the late 1960s and early 1970s."--BOOK JACKET.
Sent from Coventry
Sent from Coventry - 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 Sent from Coventry write by Richard Eddington. This book was released on 2004-01-01. Sent from Coventry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The culmination of three years of exhaustive research, this text compellingly recounts how a monochrome and embattled Britain was re-energised and coloured by two tone and its legacy.
Al Unser Jr: a Checkered Past
Al Unser Jr: a Checkered Past - 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 Al Unser Jr: a Checkered Past write by Al Unser. This book was released on 2023-05-02. Al Unser Jr: a Checkered Past available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winning came naturally for Al Unser, Jr. He had a gift for finding the fast line on the track and he possessed a boisterous and lovable personality. Fans and the press adored him. Behind this affable persona, an appetite for drugs and alcohol was destroying his private life. Unser's battle to climb out of that cave is one of the great stories in motorsports. A Checkered Past is an unblinking story of triumph, tragedy, and the road to recovery.
A Chequered Life
A Chequered Life - 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 A Chequered Life write by Richard Heseltine. This book was released on 2022-03-29. A Chequered Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first and only account of the Chequered Flag race team and its charismatic founder, Graham Warner. It charts the highs and lows, the victories and losses, and features interviews with the man himself and and several star drivers of the 1960s and '70s. Accompanied by 150 photographs, many previously unpublished, plus a look at Graham's subsequent career as a fighter aircraft expert and restorer, this is a unique story of a fascinating life in motorsport.
