Driving Ambition: Social Analysis of the American Hot Rod Enthusiasm by H.F. Moorhouse
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Driving Ambition
Driving Ambition
Summary
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.
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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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CIN0719029163G
9780719029165
0719029163
Driving Ambition: Social Analysis of the American Hot Rod Enthusiasm by H.F. Moorhouse
Used - Good
Hardback
Manchester University Press
19910411
208
N/A
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