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Speed! Lust! Madness! Death! A Hot Lap Around America with NASCAR
HarperCollins
May 2005
384 pages
ISBN: 0060094710
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
NASCAR racing, once considered no more than a regional
circuit of moonshiners pounding around low-country dirt
tracks in a cloud of red dust and cliche, has somehow become
the fastest-growing spectator sport in America -- and the
buxom, bumpkin darling of Madison Avenue. With 75 million
fans and its popularity soaring in every corner of the
country, NASCAR is a 200-mile-an-hour traveling
tent-and-revival show, a platinum-plated,
multibillion-dollar V-8 hero machine -- a sports
entertainment empire built at the very crossroads of pop
culture, corporate commerce, and American mythology. Smart, funny, and profane, Sunday Money is the
kaleidoscopic account of an entire season on the NASCAR
circuit. Driving 48,000 miles in a tiny motorhome, writer
Jeff MacGregor and his wife, an award-winning photographer,
covered 36 races at 23 tracks in 18 states, from Daytona to
Darlington, New Hampshire to California, from the Wal-Mart
to the Waldorf, profiling the lives of superstar drivers
like Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Tony Stewart, their crews, and
their fans, across the grinding reach of a 40-week season. But this is not just a behind-the-scenes chronicle of
America's loudest pastime. It is the story of a hundred
stories; of red states and blue, of splendid Rebel lizards
and golden Yankee hotshoes, of mystic true believers
and their holy roll of honored ghosts. In the tradition of
On the Road, Travels with Charley, and
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Sunday
Money is a snapshot of American culture -- of race,
religion, class, sex, money, politics, and fame -- taken
from the window of a moving car, a brilliantly observed,
keenly rendered, and
darkly comic portrait of America.
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