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The author tracks the fascinating lives of the obsessive fast-car record-breakers of the 1920s-1940s. The way society seized upon them and made them front page news and the way they struggled with fear, rivalry, the world's expectations and death made them part of a startling phenomenon which burnt out as suddenly as it had arrived.Jennings, Charles is the author of 'Fast Set Three Extraordinary Men and Their Race for the Land Speed Record', published 2005 under ISBN 9780349115962 and ISBN 0349115966.
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