Real NASCAR: white lightning, red clay, and Big Bill France

Introduction: In the Beginning...There Was Bristol

1. The Piedmont Hell of a Fellow and the Origins of Stock Car Racing

2. Home-towners Going at It Tooth and Nail: Pre-World War II Piedmont Stock Car Racing

3. Rough and Rowdy: Big Bill, the Atlanta Bootleggers, and the Bootlegger Tracks

4. A Paper Dream?: The Creation and Early Years of Nascar

5. Darlington, Bamooda Shorts, Jocko Flocko, and the Fabulous Hudson Hornet: Nascar Grand National, 1950-1954

6. I Would Have Been Willing to Bet...We Would Never Have to Sleep in the Car Again: Feast and Famine, Nascar, 1955-1958

7. High Stakes Poker: Nascar, 1959-1963

8. Give 'Em All a Shot of Whiskey and Drop the Flag: Nascar's Danger Years, 1964-1967

9. The Dirt Tracks Are Rapidly Becoming a Thing of the Past: The End of the Beginning, 1968-1972

Conclusion: Back to Bristol

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