Brock Yates books

Against Death and Time: One Fatal Season in Racing's Glory Years

  HISTORIANS TEND TO DISMISS THE FIFTIES AS A decade of insipid, pastel-colored lassitude. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. described it as a period of "repose" following the cataclysmic decades of the Depression-ridden thirties and the war-ravaged forties. Yet the nation was evidencing a latent restlessne...