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NASCAR Nation: How Racing's Values Mirror America's
Longtime Fox Sports broadcaster and NASCAR prerace show host Chris Myers demonstrates that racing embodies the best of what makes America great: our competitive spirit; our will to win; our love of pageantry, heroes, and tradition; our willingness to face risks and build for the future. This unique book is a love letter to the NASCAR community -- from an outsider turned insider who "gets" what NASCAR fans and the world of NASCAR is all about. NASCAR has been slighted in the mainstream media for too long. Now, everyone will see that NASCAR and its fans truly represent what's best about our country. Myers takes fans to track-side, places them in the car and in the middle of the action and shares the sports finer moments, its most challenging times and introduces fans to a world that is so deeply cherished by all fans of motorsport.
240 pages, Hardcover
First published January 13, 2010
About the author
Chris Myers
16 books6 followersChris Myers has been a science fiction fan since seeing the original “Day the Earth Stood Still” at age eight. Her favorite subgenre is space opera romance. Among the most influential in her work are the Lazarus Long novels by Robert Heinlein including “Time Enough for Love”, Marta Randall’s “Journey” and of course “Star Wars”, everything “Star Trek” and “Fire Fly”.
A lifelong resident of Silver Lake, NY she wrote her first novella at age fifteen. She has a BA in Cultural Studies from Empire State College majoring in creative writing. She writes a regular column in the local weekly newspaper “Perry Herald”. Chris has written four novels in The Aledan Series:
A lifelong resident of Silver Lake, NY she wrote her first novella at age fifteen. She has a BA in Cultural Studies from Empire State College majoring in creative writing. She writes a regular column in the local weekly newspaper “Perry Herald”. Chris has written four novels in The Aledan Series:
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March 14, 2021
Some sports books that are read several years after their publication show their age early and may not be as relevant now as they were at the time of publication and some withstand the test of time and are still relevant, possibly with some minor changes. This book on how NASCAR reflects American values and tradition falls into the latter category, even if Chris Myers' writing does seem dated at times.
That happens when the names of drivers and other people associated with the sport are mentioned as none of the championship drivers he mentions prominently, such as Dale Earnhardt (both father and son), Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart are all retired. Some of the races have changed names due to sponsorships and now, nine years after publication, it seems quaint to hear the words "Sprint Cup" when NASCAR's biggest circuit has no sponsor name and is just known as the Cup Series.
However, that is all moot when Myers writes about how the drivers, fans, owners and practically everyone involved in the sport help to make it not only a sport that reflects American values but also other aspects that place it in a unique position among spectator sports. These include regular NASCAR occurrences such as the invocation and prayer that is done before the national anthem is played and the access that fans have to the drivers, the cars, the garage and pit road. While that may come back since it is now not allowed due to the pandemic, it still places NASCAR in a unique position for accessibility.
Some readers may feel that this is a "rah-rah" type of book that simply talks about what a great sport this is, but Myers is writing from the heart and whether one loves NASCAR as much as he does or thinks this is going a little overboard, it is one that truly does show the connection between American values, at least in the early part of the 2010's decade, and the sport.
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That happens when the names of drivers and other people associated with the sport are mentioned as none of the championship drivers he mentions prominently, such as Dale Earnhardt (both father and son), Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart are all retired. Some of the races have changed names due to sponsorships and now, nine years after publication, it seems quaint to hear the words "Sprint Cup" when NASCAR's biggest circuit has no sponsor name and is just known as the Cup Series.
However, that is all moot when Myers writes about how the drivers, fans, owners and practically everyone involved in the sport help to make it not only a sport that reflects American values but also other aspects that place it in a unique position among spectator sports. These include regular NASCAR occurrences such as the invocation and prayer that is done before the national anthem is played and the access that fans have to the drivers, the cars, the garage and pit road. While that may come back since it is now not allowed due to the pandemic, it still places NASCAR in a unique position for accessibility.
Some readers may feel that this is a "rah-rah" type of book that simply talks about what a great sport this is, but Myers is writing from the heart and whether one loves NASCAR as much as he does or thinks this is going a little overboard, it is one that truly does show the connection between American values, at least in the early part of the 2010's decade, and the sport.
https://sportsbookguy.blogspot.com/20...
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