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"Thompson exhumes the sport's Prohibition-era roots in this colorful, meticulously detailed history."-Time Magazine“Here’s the real story, not just of NASCAR, but of the new South that emerged from moonshine and speed.” —Richard Ben Cramer, author of Joe DiMaggio: The Hero’s Life and editor of The Best American Sports Writing 2004“Neal Thompson has written NASCAR’s Glory of Their Times. He tells the true story of NASCAR’s beginnings, revealing the sport’s strong whiskey roots and letting us get to know its key movers and shakers, including the triumvirate of racer Red Byron, mechanic Red Vogt, and bootlegger car owner Raymond Parks. Like Seabiscuit, Thompson makes a sport and an era come wonderfully alive.”—Peter Golenbock, author of Miracle: Bobby Allison and the Saga of the Alabama Gang and American Zoom: Stock Car Racing—From Dirt Tracks to Daytona “Driving with the Devil is a full-tilt excursion through the back roads of NASCAR’s past, when moonshiners and scofflaws pioneered the sport. This is a tale that sanitized corporate NASCAR would rather forget about, but with Neal Thompson at the wheel, it makes for wonderful reading.” —Sharyn McCrumb, author of St. Dale“Driving with the Devil is a treasure trove of historically relevant information that tracks the history of the American automobile industry, the culture and morality of the broader society, and the motivations and personalities of early stock-car-racing operatives. All of which have inexorably contributed to the foundation and fabric of NASCAR’s brand of stock-car racing as it manifests itself today.” —Jack Roush, chairman of Roush Racing“Driving with the Devil is a most impressive piece of work. Most Americans have the vague notion that big-time stock-car racing sprang from moonshine-hauling in the southern Appalachians prior to the Second World War, but here is documented proof that it was that and much more. Neal Thompson’s Driving with the Devil nails it once and for all: a riveting report any student of Americana will cherish. It’s no more about racing than The Old Man and the Sea is about fishing.” —Paul Hemphill, author of Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams and Wheels: A Season on NASCAR’s Winston Cup Circuit"A fascinating and fast-moving account of NASCAR's fledgling days."–Atlanta Journal Constitution"There are more divorces, drunks and wrecks than you can shake a checkered flag at...A thoroughly researched account of a 'simpler time' in a sport that has since become a multi-billion dollar business."–NBC News anchor Brian Williams, in the Wall Street Journal
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About the Author
Neal Thompson is a veteran journalist who has worked for the Baltimore Sun, Philadelphia Inquirer, and St. Petersburg Times, and whose magazine stories have appeared in Outside, Esquire, Backpacker, and Men’s Health. He teaches at the University of North Carolina-Asheville’s Great Smokies Writing Program and is author of Light This Candle: The Life & Times of Alan Shepard, America’s First Spaceman. Thompson, his wife, and their two sons live in the mountains outside Asheville, North Carolina.
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Product details
Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: Broadway Books; Reprint edition (August 28, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1400082269
ISBN-13: 978-1400082261
Product Dimensions:
5.2 x 0.9 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.6 out of 5 stars
117 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#316,717 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I’m afraid that Mr. Thompson knows very little about cars. Perhaps he knows something about the men in the 1930’s who built and raced them, but his ignorance about cars, in general, is appalling. For example, he tells us that Duesenbergs were “foreignâ€, implying that Minnesota, Indiana and New Jersey hadn’t been admitted to the Union yet. And that it was a one man company, in which case that one man’s name was “Fredandaugieâ€.According to Thompson, Red Vogt initiated the practice of banning rags from engine assembly areas, ignoring the fact that Ettore Bugatti had done so when Vogt was in elementary school. The 1932 Ford V-8 was the greatest innovation since windshield wipers, according to the author. Actually it was a lousy engine, plagued by lubrication trouble, overheating, (Ford’s 4 cylinder cars had NO water pump, so old Hank was a little puzzled here), and vapor locking. The 1932 engine only had 5 hp more than the Chevrolet 6 of the same year. V-8’s were nothing new, dating back to 1916-1918 in Cadillacs and Oldsmobiles. Ford’s own Lincolns were moving up from V-8’s to V-12s.Admittedly the flathead Ford engine improved immensely in succeeding years (a stock 1939 Ford was capable of a blazing speed incompatible with its brakes and suspension) but arguably the greatest virtues of the flathead were price and an ability to deal with “hot†fuel, often illegally. We learn that in the late 1940’s, Ford V-8s had to compete with V-8 engines from Chevrolet, Oldsmobile and Hudson. Chevy’s and Hudsons actually had in-line 6’s, “splash-lubers†without pumped oil to their bottom ends. We are told that some drivers objected to the name Nascar because it might evoke the Nash, “no racing carâ€. Actually a Nash did win a stock car race and that the master, Curtis Turner, came close to winning the PanAmerican Road Race in one. His effort was stymied, in part, by Bill France’s panic at sharing a car with a truly great driver in Turner, who had none of the caution of the good old Georgia boys. Oldsmobiles get a lot of credit from Thompson for their post-WWII success in late-model racing, but ignores the substantial rivalry of the great Hudson Hornets whose lower centers of gravity compensated for their primitive engines. Thompson also refers to the early Watkins Glen and Sebring races as “Grand Prix†events. Neither was. Watkins Glen was an amateur SCCA sports car race and Sebring included factory teams, but of sports cars, not Grand Prix cars. Sadly, the cars that compete in the major NASCAR events today are purpose-built all-out racing cars without a single “stock†part. The small local dirt track racers today are closer to the spirit of the Seays and Byrons. Thompson should have, at the least, had the book fact checked instead of relying on the readers’ ignorance. Better yet, he should have left the writing to a better-informed person.
This book does exactly what the title states. It is a well researched chronicle of the early history of stock car racing in the south. As a racer and racing history buff since the 60s, I always understood that there was more to racing than NASCAR and the France family. Mr Thompson has done a great job of presenting the early history of stock car racing, a very difficult task, I'm sure, because first hand information is nearly impossible to obtain and the France family has worked since the beginning of NASCAR to distance themselves from the moonshiners who started the sport. Most of the history in the mainstream media is a revisionist version and refers to NASCAR's "modern era". As to the negative reviews about technical facts not being accurate, there are many volumes out there that cover the technical aspects of stock car racing. I am talking about thousands of pages. This book is exactly what it is represented to be. If you want technical information, it is available elswhere.
I have never watched a NASCAR race and definitely have no intentions of doing so in the future.I do, however, drive a '37 Ford Coupe and lived in the northern suburbs of Atlanta for a decade. These facts made the book very interesting for me. From that perspective I could fully appreciate the courage and tenacity of the men who ran Highway 9 out of Dawsonville through Cumming to Atlanta in '37 - '40 Ford Coupes at speeds of 100 MPH delivering moonshine to a growing and thirsty Atlanta.Like most great books, this books deals with three distinct subjects that co-exist in time. The first subject is moonshining in North Georgia in the pre-WWII days. The second is the politics and economics of Atlanta emerging as a center of influence in the New South. The third is the birth of stock car racing that would evolve into NASCAR as we know it today.What ties these subjects together are people with drive and vision, risk takers both physically and financially.This book is a well crafted book first and foremost about the people: (1) who ran the moonshine and raced the back woods tracks; (2) who built the cars that ran shine on Wednesday and raced on Sunday, (3) who built businesses on moonshine, engine tuning, racing and entertaining.This book was very informative in all of the subject areas. It was an enjoyable read from start to finish.
I've never been to a live NASCAR race but I really enjoyed this book. I sort of new about the historical link between moonshine running and stock car racing but author Thompson fills in all the details and all the characters in this well researched piece of work.
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