Full Throttle: The Life and Fast Times of Curtis Turner
by Robert Edelstein
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Curtis Turner's life embodied everything that makes NASCAR the biggest spectator sport in American history. In gripping prose, and with full access to the files of Turner's widow, biographer Robert Edelstein thrillingly recreates the life of this American legend. Full Throttle is the first-ever full-scale chronicle of Turner's legendary life, from his days as a teenage moonshine runner, through his incredible comeback after four years of being banned from the NASCAR circuit.Tags
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Common Knowledge
- Epigraph
- "I go from this to that, and why be ashamed of it? It seems to me this is the human expierence." --Larry Rivers, artist
So, seize the day! hold holiday!
Be unwearied, uncaring, alive
you and your own true love;
Let not your heart be troubled during your sojourn on earth,
but seize the day as it passes!...
Let your heart be ... (show all)drunk on the gift of Day
until the day comes when you anchor
From "The Harper's Son for Inherkhawy"
I was raised in the country, I been workin' in the town
I been in trouble ever since I set my suitcase down
--Bob Dylan, from "Mississippi" - Dedication
- For Rachel, Nellie, and Jake Bailey, from your loving, grateful Daddy and for Loren, always
- First words
- Easley, South Carolina, about ten miles west of Greenville as the crow flies, is a town where everyone knows everbody knows everybody else.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Lord he loved life, but he would have never been happy being old."
- Blurbers
- Allison, Bobby; Yarborough, Cale; Johnson, Junior; Garner, James; Andretti, Mario; Parsons, Benny (show all 7); Waltrip, Darrell
Classifications
- Genres
- Sports and Leisure, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction, History
- DDC/MDS
- 796.72 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Sports Car Racing Motor racing
- LCC
- GV1032 .T83 .E34 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Recreation. Leisure Recreation. Leisure Sports Automobile travel. Motoring. Automobile racing
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- Languages
- English
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- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
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