Driving ambitions : an analysis of the American hot rod enthusiasm
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Driving ambitions : an analysis of the American hot rod enthusiasm
（International studies in the history of sport）
Manchester University Press , Distributedexclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1991
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A survey of American motor sports over the last 50 years, covering "hot rod" motor racing (including the growth of "Hot Rod Magazine") and the development of the car as a major element in American culture. It treats sports consumption and enthusiasms as a serious subject for social analysis.
Table of Contents
- The automobile and social analysis - theoretical perspectives
- the early hot rod sports - the lakes and the streets
- "Hot Rod Magazine" and the creation of drag racing
- the development of drag racing and the early hot rod economy
- sporting politics - fuel, professionalism and associations
- sporting politics - big business and the state
- ideologies in the enthusiasm - the work ethic
- - an all-American way
- drag racing in the 1980s - running into troubles
- the shut down.
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