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Real NASCAR: White Lightning, Red Clay and Big Bill France
Season 2010-2011
What is North Carolina’s favorite sport? You might get some argument about that, but for lots of North Carolinians it is stock car racing—the NASCAR variety and they will tell you how North Carolina moonshiners driving their fast car away from the revenuers got things started. Well, the real story is even more interesting as we will learn from Daniel Pierce when he tells us about his new book, “Real NASCAR: White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France ” on North Carolina Bookwatch(only one I could find)Bio - Daniel S. (Dan) Pierce is associate professor and chair of the history department at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He is a graduate of Western Carolina University (B.S.Ed.), the University of Alabama (M.A. History), and the University of Tennessee (Ph.D. History). At UNCA, he teaches classes in Appalachian and Southern History, the Civil War, Writing and History, and Environmental History. His research focuses on the Great Smoky Mountains, Southern Appalachian history, the history of Moonshining, and NASCAR history.
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