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FASTER: HOW A JEWISH DRIVER, AN AMERICAN HEIRESS, AND A LEGENDARY CAR BEAT HITLER’S BEST

By Neal Bascomb

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 617-351-5000 www.hmhco.com

ISBN 9781328489876

$28

“Death, rivalry, betrayal, and politics,” writes Neal Bascomb in his new history, In the 1930s, those had destroyed the old gentlemanly sport of Grand Prix motor racing. The catalyst for those changes was the paradigm-shattering Silver

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