Hard driving : the Wendell Scott story : the American odyssey of NASCAR'S first black driver / Brian Donovan.
Looks at the life and career of the African-American man who challenged NASCAR's racial barrier in the 1950s.
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- ISBN: 9781586421601
- ISBN: 9781586421441
- ISBN: 1586421441
- ISBN: 1586421603
- Physical Description: xiii, 311 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: Hanover, N.H. : Steerforth Press, ©2008.
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-300) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 1 "Didn't no black kids have no bicycles." 7 -- 2 "I don't never want to punch no clock." 14 -- 3 "A hard, nasty business." 21 -- 4 "Judge, it couldn't have been me." 28 -- 5 "Let me see how you doin' them turns." 35 -- 6 "He had to be tough-skinned." 41 -- 7 "I said, 'Well, I won the steaks.'" 48 -- 8 "You're going to be knocked around." 55 -- 9 "The more you do it, the more you like to do it." 64 -- 10 "He knew just how to hit me." 71 -- 11 "If he had the power, he'd come on at you." 81 -- 12 "We're movin' up." 89 -- 13 "They didn't want to use the word Wendell" 93 -- 14 "A standoffish position" 99 -- 15 "He hid the pain so well" 105 -- 16 "Man, I come a long way" 117 -- 17 "They took all the kick out of it." 127 -- 18 "I just knew Ford was going to do something for me" 136 -- 19 "How come way out here?" 144 -- 20 "We used to be the cleanup boys" 152 -- 21 "I'll get it done, Bill" 161 -- 22 "You're not gonna miss that li'l ol' wheel" 168 -- 23 "I'm going to show them" 176 -- 24 "The funds was just not there" 185 -- 25 "I know my place now" 192 -- 26 "We will not forget" 197 -- 27 "It was about wore out" 202 -- 28 "I'm gonna wreck him" 210 -- 29 "A chance to win one" 214 -- 30 "Just dreaming" 223 -- 31 "And the crowd laughed" 233 -- 32 "He put all his chips on the table" 239 -- 33 "What's the purpose?" 245 -- 34 "Business is business" 250 -- 35 "I couldn't drive like he drove" 261 -- 36 "I saw a different Wendell" 270 -- 37 "Hope for the best" 277. |
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