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REVIEWED: ‘Manmade Thunder’ Is A NASCAR Book Worthy Of Attention
As much as “Manmade Thunder” appears to be a coffee-table picture book, while indeed it is that, it is so much more...
Steve Waid  | http://www.scenedaily.com  |  Posted December 22, 2008   Charlotte, NC
Article courtesy of Waid's World - A NASCAR BLOG BY Steve Waid on SceneDaily.com

Godwin Kelly, the longtime motorsports writer for the (Daytona Beach) News-Journal, has deservedly won several awards for his work over the years.

I might add he has done some pretty good stuff for NASCAR Scene and NASCAR Illustrated as well.

When I was informed that he had written a book entitled “Manmade Thunder,” for Dakini Publishing (315 pages, $49), I was immediately intrigued, if for no other reason than I had read his explorative, entertaining and informative biography “Fireball,” on the life of NASCAR great Fireball Roberts.

I confess I was somewhat intimidated by “Manmade Thunder.” It is a huge, heavy book filled with lavish photography. It was going to take a lot of time to get through it – so much so, I thought, that I wouldn’t be able to fully absorb it.

A piece of advice: Don’t feel as I did. Get the book, read it, enjoy the photos and learn, as I have, then you have a keepsake.

As much as “Manmade Thunder” appears to be a coffee-table picture book, while indeed it is that, it is so much more. Kelly makes the difference.

I know how much research he devoted to the book, which begins with a detailed description of what stock-car racing was 60 years ago, and how Bill France Sr. took it by the scruff of the neck and slowly but surely molded it into one of the largest spectator sports in the country.

Buy The Book! MANMADE THUNDER By Godwin Kelly

But then Kelly’s attention shifts. Rather than chronicle NASCAR’s progression year by year, which would have been boring, the book continues with informative, in-depth stories about the sport’s greatest drivers from the past to the present.

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