In this history of the stock car racing circuit known as NASCAR, Daniel S. Pierce offers a revealing new look at the sport from its postwar beginnings on Daytona Beach and Piedmont dirt tracks through the early 1970s, when the sport spread beyond its southern roots and gained national recognition. Real NASCAR not only confirms the popular notion of NASCAR's origins in bootlegging, but also establishes beyond a doubt the close ties between organized racing and the illegal liquor industry, a story that readers will find both fascinating and controversial.

In just over four months of release, NASCAR Racing has become the most successful racing game of all time for the PC, selling 400,000 units in that short period. This is the official and exclusive guide to the game, licensed from Papyrus and NASCAR, and includes hints and tips gamers can't get anywhere else. CD includes the software for Papyrus's new online racing service.

A behind-the-scenes look at the hard-driving elite of stock car racing, NASCAR Racers immerses readers in the action of the 2005 NASCAR Nextel Cup season from garage and pit road to finish line and winner's circle. Get the inside scoop on today's top stock car racers' the legendary veterans, the hot newcomers, and the Rookie of the Year. Here are stars like Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jeff Gordon, Kasey Kahne, Greg Biffle, Jamie McMurray, and Carl Edwards' in profiles that give the full story on each driver's career from his earliest racing efforts to the Nextel Cup; in year-by-year statistical tables; and in photos that capture the action on and off the track at America's greatest racing venues.

Presents career profiles of twenty-four stars of the NASCAR racing circuit, including John Andretti, Dale Earnhardt, and Jeff Gordon.

"With stories by Richard Petty, Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart, Bobby Labonte, Dale Jarrett, Darrell Waltrip, Michael Waltrip, and many more"--Cover.

The journal of cinematic illusions.

Rev up readers' holidays with this collection of four racing romances. Includes Have a Beachy Little Christmas by Liz Allison and Wendy Etherington, Winning the Race by Brenda Jackson, All They Want for Christmas by Marisa Carroll, and A Family for Christmas by Jean Brashear. Original.