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Hard driving : the Wendell Scott story : the American odyssey of NASCAR'S first black driver / Brian Donovan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Donovan, Brian, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scott, Wendell, 1921-1990.
- Scott, Wendell.
- Stock car drivers--United States--Biography.
- Stock car drivers.
- African American automobile racing drivers.
- United States.
- Automobile racing drivers--United States--Biography.
- Automobile racing drivers.
- African American automobile racing drivers--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 311 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Hanover, N.H. : Steerforth Press, [2008]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-300) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781586421618
- 1586421611
- Publisher Number:
- 99985048468
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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