Full Throttle: The Life and Fast Times of Curtis Turner
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"The unremitting, over-the-top life of Curtis Turner, the greatest, most dynamic stock-car racer of all time, who wrote the book on living fast and dying young. Curtis Turner's life embodied everything that makes NASCAR the biggest spectator sport in American history. In gripping prose, and with full access to the files of Turner's widow, biographer Robert Edelstein, the exclusive motor sports writer for TV Guide and the author of NASCAR Generations, thrillingly recreates the life of this American legend. Motor racing and mayhem, the non-stop pursuit of outrageous dreams, high-speed thrills, and a really good time...these are the raw materials of Full Throttle: The Life and fast Times of Curtis Turner. This one's on the fast track." The New York Times - Jonathan Miles [Edelstein's] impeccable biography of Turner (who died in a plane crash in 1970), Full Throttle kicks up blissful dirt on Nascar's juiced-up early days. Turner's track record was dazzling -- he ''won more than 350 races, driving on any surface he could find,'' Edelstein writes, eventually earning the title of ''the Babe Ruth of Stock-Car Racing'' -- but his off-track record, especially in light of Nascar's efforts to remake their drivers as gassed-up Mouseketeers, was downright dizzying.
