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Product details:
- Edition number First Edition
- Publisher University of Illinois Press
- Date of Publication 6 February 2024
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9780252087660
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 229x152x23 mm
- Weight 254 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 45 black & white photographs 477
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Short description:
How a speedway became a legendary sports site and sparked America’s car cultureThe 1909 opening of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway marked a foundational moment in the history of automotive racing.
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How a speedway became a legendary sports site and sparked America’s car culture
The 1909 opening of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway marked a foundational moment in the history of automotive racing. Events at the famed track and others like it also helped launch America’s love affair with cars and an embrace of road systems that transformed cities and shrank perceptions of space.
Brian Ingrassia tells the story of the legendary oval’s early decades. This story revolves around Speedway cofounder and visionary businessman Carl Graham Fisher, whose leadership in the building of the transcontinental Lincoln Highway and the iconic Dixie Highway had an enormous impact on American mobility. Ingrassia looks at the Speedway’s history as a testing ground for cars and airplanes, its multiple close brushes with demolition, and the process by which racing became an essential part of the Golden Age of Sports. At the same time, he explores how the track’s past reveals the potent links between sports capitalism and the selling of nostalgia, tradition, and racing legends.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction. Brick Description: Speedway as Cultural Text
- Crossroads of America: Inventing Indianapolis
- America’s Brooklands: Annihilating Space at the Speedway
- Speed Carnivals: Conducting the Midway of a Motor Empire
- Automotive Metropolis: Reinventing Indianapolis
- Finest Flying Field in America: The Speedway Goes to War
- Sports of Titans: A Golden Age of Racing and Development
- Selling the Speedway: A Place at the Center of American Culture
- Just Call It the “500”: Forging Traditions in the Depression Era
- Tradition Never Stops: The Cultural Logic of Sports Capitalism
Acknowledgments
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