Take a rip-roaring ride into the glory years of NASCAR as you travel with the team not only behind the wheel and in the pits at the track but also to the cocktail parties, broadcast booth and beyond. With unfettered access, award-winning author Scott Huler explored the inner workings of a stock car racing team. His insightful, colorful text takes you back to the days when Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt, and more were battling for supremacy. This insider view follows the always colorful Kenny Wallace as he and his Square D team win and lose on-track battles at Martinsville and Charlotte. This dynamic book explores the inner workings of the greatest era in NASCAR racing. Take a wild ride down memory lane--any race fan who remembers the days when stock car racing was king will love A Little Bit Sideways.
--Scott HulerTake a rip-roaring ride into the glory years of NASCAR as you travel with the team not only behind the wheel and in the pits at the track but also to the cocktail parties, broadcast booth and beyond. With unfettered access, award-winning author Scott Huler explored the inner workings of a stock car racing team. His insightful, colorful text takes you back to the days when Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt, and more were battling for supremacy. This insider view follows the always colorful Kenny Wallace as he and his Square D team win and lose on-track battles at Martinsville and Charlotte. This dynamic book explores the inner workings of the greatest era in NASCAR racing. Take a wild ride down memory lane--any race fan who remembers the days when stock car racing was king will love A Little Bit Sideways.
--Scott HulerThe author of seven books of nonfiction including the just
published A Delicious Country (2019), Scott Huler has written on
everything from the death penalty to bikini waxing, from NASCAR
racing to the stealth bomber, for such newspapers as the New York
Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Los
Angeles Times and such magazines as Backpacker, Fortune, and ESPN.
His award-winning radio work has been heard on "All Things
Considered" and "Day to Day" on National Public Radio and on
"Marketplace" and "Splendid Table" on American Public Media. He has
been a staff writer for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Raleigh
News & Observer and a staff reporter and producer for Nashville
Public Radio. He was the founding and managing editor of the
Nashville City Paper. He has taught at such colleges as Berry
College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His
books have been translated into five languages. You can find his
Muckrack page here.
He was a 2002-2003 Knight-Wallace Fellow at Michigan, 2011 Piedmont
Laureate in creative nonfiction, and a 2014-2015 Knight Science
Journalism Fellow at MIT. Awards he has won include Public Radio
News Directors Inc. Awards, Tennessee AP Broadcasters Association
Awards, and most recently a 2020 CASE Circle of Excellence
Award.
He currently works as the senior writer at Duke Magazine and lives
in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, the writer June Spence,
and their two sons.
"It may be the best presentation of racing I've come across."--Bob
Latford "The Inside Line"
"[Huler's] eye for detail - of the mechanical and of the human
element - is moving and delightful."--Gerald Martin "Racer
Magazine"
"A fast-paced, 48-hours documentary-style look at the real world of
racing.... Huler brings the business as well as the heart and soul
of the NASCAR race team to life in fascinating detail and
refreshing accuracy."--Claire B. Lang "NASCAR Winston Cup
Illustrated"
"A great job of capturing the entire aspect of what NASCAR is like
- from the fans, drivers, pit crews, the whole gamut."--Bob Jenkins
"ESPN"
"A wonderful book, accurate and insightful, ... beautifully
crafted.... The book truly is terrific."-- "The Huntsville
Times"
"Huler is a master at painting a picture with words. ... This book
should be required reading for every race fan. ... A winner."--
"Frontstretch.com "
"Most of the books currently being written about NASCAR are of the
coffee-table variety, and most glorify the sport. Fine. There is a
place for that. There also is a place for unfettered observation
and independent analysis of a sport that is growing so fast that
few have the time to understand why. A Raleigh writer named Scott
Huler has broken new ground with A Little Bit Sideways.... Huler
wrestles with the sport's uniqueness better than most.... Huler
also has a welcome attention to detail."--Monte Dutton "Gaston
Gazette"
"One writer may finally have captured the essence of stock-car
racing, demystifying the grown-up groupie mentality that the
roaring sport inspires."--Michael Skube "Atlanta
Journal-Constitution"
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