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The Fast Ride
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Author : Jack Gilden
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2022-04
The Fast Ride written by Jack Gilden and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04 with History categories.
In an era of spectacular thoroughbreds, Spectacular Bid was perhaps the most exalted racehorse of them all. In 1979 he won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes—and transcended his sport on a run of twelve consecutive stakes victories—but his quest for the Triple Crown was lost with a third-place finish in the Belmont Stakes due to a series of bizarre events that have never been accurately reported. In The Fast Ride, Jack Gilden tells the story of what really happened that day the Bid lost the biggest race of his life. Along the way, he introduces the reader to a cast of characters from the gilded age of late twentieth-century horse racing, from Bid’s owners, the renowned Meyerhoff family, to Grover “Buddy” Delp, the fast-talking trainer, to teenage jockey Ronnie Franklin, whose meteoric rise to fame aboard Spectacular Bid came at the cost of his innocence and well-being. Also present are four of the era’s magnificent Latino riders, Ángel Cordero Jr., Jacinto Vasquez, Georgie Velasquez, and Ruben Hernandez, who all felt the sting of rejection and bigotry during their long careers even as they found their way and raised the level of competition to a feverish pitch. Underlying Spectacular Bid’s saga was a thin line between hard work and excess, including substance abuse, animal manipulation and doping, and race fixing. Hardly anyone in the horse’s circle made it out unscathed or undamaged. The Fast Ride is the story of a great racehorse, unfulfilled dreams, the exhilaration and steep price of striving at all costs, and an American era in which getting everything you ever wanted could be the most empty and unfulfilling sensation of all.
A Fast Ride To Hell
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Author : Arthur J. Williams
language : en
Publisher: Vantage Press
Release Date : 1989-06-01
A Fast Ride To Hell written by Arthur J. Williams and has been published by Vantage Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-06-01 with Detroit (Mich.) categories.
Big Fast Rides
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Author : Alison Hawes
language : en
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Release Date : 2014-01-30
Big Fast Rides written by Alison Hawes and has been published by eBook Partnership this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-30 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Full Flight non-fiction is a series of books for reluctant readers. A loopy book of fun facts about rollercoasters. Find out how they started, how they were built, and where you can find the biggest, the fastest and the scariest rides of all
A Fast Ride Out Of Here
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Author : Pete Way
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-05-11
A Fast Ride Out Of Here written by Pete Way and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'They call me a madman but compared to Pete Way, I'm out of my league.' - Ozzy Osbourne There are rock memoirs and then there is this one. A Fast Ride Out of Here tells a story that is so shocking, so outrageous, so packed with excess and leading to such uproar and tragic consequences as to be almost beyond compare. Put simply, in terms of jaw-dropping incident, self-destruction and all-round craziness, Pete Way's rock'n'roll life makes even Keith Richards's appear routine and Ozzy Osbourne seem positively mild-mannered in comparison. Not for nothing did Nikki Sixx, bassist with LA shock-rockers Motley Crue and who 'died' for eight minutes following a heroin overdose in 1988, consider that he was a disciple of and apprenticed to Way. During a forty-year career as founding member and bassist of the venerated British hard rock band UFO, and which has also included a stint in his hell-raising buddy Ozzy's band, Pete Way has both scaled giddy heights and plunged to unfathomable lows. A heroin addict for more than ten years, he blew millions on drugs and booze and left behind him a trail of chaos and carnage. The human cost of this runs to six marriages, four divorces, a pair of estranged daughters and two dead ex-wives. Latterly, Way has fought cancer, but has survived it all and is now ready to tell his extraordinary tale. By turns hilarious, heart-rending, mordant, scabrous, self-lacerating, brutally honest and entirely compulsive, A Fast Ride Out of Here will be a monument to rock'n'roll debauchery on an epic, unparalleled scale and also to one man's sheer indestructability.
Fast Cars Cool Rides
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Author : Amy L. Best
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2006
Fast Cars Cool Rides written by Amy L. Best and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Social Science categories.
Drawing on interviews with over 100 young men and women, and five years of research, the author explores the fast-paced world of kids and their cars. She reveals a world where cars have incredible significance for kids, as a means of transportation and thereby freedom to come and go, as status symbols and as a means to express their identities.
Fast Ride With The Top Down
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Author : Harper Grey
language : en
Publisher: Alyson Books
Release Date : 1996
Fast Ride With The Top Down written by Harper Grey and has been published by Alyson Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Fiction categories.
Lacy Blackwood, a lesbian orphaned as a child when her dysfunctional parents are killed in a freak roller-coaster accident, leaves college and heads for Florida in an attempt to establish new roots and a career as an artist
Fast Enough
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Author : Joel Christian Gill
language : en
Publisher: Oni Press
Release Date : 2019-02-05
Fast Enough written by Joel Christian Gill and has been published by Oni Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-05 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
"A playful introduction to Bessie’s exciting, triumphant, and unforgettable story." — Kirkus Have you ever been told that you’re not enough? That you’re not strong enough, tall enough, fast enough? Bessie was told she was not enough. Bessie dreams of riding her bike with the boys after school, but they tell her she is not fast enough. When she finally gets a chance to race, she proves not only that she is fast enough, but she is faster. Fast Enough combines an imagined story of Bessie Stringfield as a young girl with historical facts about Bessie as an adult. Bessie Stringfield went on to become the first African-American woman to travel solo across the United States on a motorcycle. Not only was she fast, but she was a true adventurer, daring to ride to places unsafe for African Americans in the 1930s and ’40s. Fast Enough is an inspirational story for anyone who’s been told they are not enough.
The Emerald Mile
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Author : Kevin Fedarko
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014-07
The Emerald Mile written by Kevin Fedarko and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The epic story of the fastest boat ride in history, on a hand-built dory named the "Emerald Mile," through the heart of the Grand Canyon on the Colorado river.
Live Fast Die Young
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Author : Lawrence Frascella
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2005-10-04
Live Fast Die Young written by Lawrence Frascella and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-04 with Performing Arts categories.
When it was released in 1955, the film Rebel Without a Cause had a revolutionary impact on moviemaking and youth culture, virtually giving birth to our concept of the American teenager. For the first time, Live Fast, Die Young tells the complete story of the explosive making of Rebel, a film that has rocked every generation since its release. Set against a backdrop of the Atomic Age and an old Hollywood studio system on the verge of collapse, it vividly evokes the cataclysmic, immensely influential meeting of four of Hollywood's most passionate artists. When James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, and director Nicholas Ray converged, each was at a crucial point in his or her career. The young actors were grappling with fame, their burgeoning sexuality, and increasingly reckless behavior. As Ray engaged his cast in physical melees and psychosexual seductions of startling intensity, the on- and off-set relationships between his ambitious young actors ignited, sending a shock wave through the film. Through interviews with the surviving members of the cast and crew and firsthand access to both personal and studio archives, Lawrence Frascella and Al Weisel reveal Rebel's true drama -- the director's affair with sixteen-year-old Wood, his tempestuous "spiritual marriage" with Dean, and his role in awakening the latent homosexuality of Mineo, who would become the first gay teenager to appear on film. Complete with thirty photographs, including ten never-before-seen photos by famed Dean photographer Dennis Stock, Live Fast, Die Young tells the absorbing inside story of an unforgettable and absolutely essential American film -- a story that is, in many ways, as provocative as the film itself.
A Fast Ride On A Slow Merry Go Round
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Author : Bill Estes
language : en
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Release Date : 1973-01-01
A Fast Ride On A Slow Merry Go Round written by Bill Estes and has been published by B&H Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973-01-01 with categories.