Neal Thompson: "Driving With the Devil" (Crown)

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Neal Thompson: "Driving With the Devil" (Crown)

Today's NASCAR is a family sport with 75 million loyal fans across America, but dark secrets lurk in its past. A journalist traces the origins of stock car racing to moonshining whiskey in the Prohibition-era South.

Today's NASCAR is a family sport with 75 million loyal fans across America, but dark secrets lurk in its past. A journalist traces the origins of stock car racing to moonshining whiskey in the Prohibition-era South.

Guests

Neal Thompson

journalist and author of "Light This Candle: The Life and Times of Alan Shepard."

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