Indianapolis Motor Speedway- the Eddie Rickenbacker Era
- ISBN-10
- 1665501448
- ISBN-13
- 9781665501446
- Category
- Sports & Recreation
- Pages
- 568
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-12-20
- Publisher
- AuthorHouse
- Author
- Denny Miller
Description
This Eddie Rickenbacker Era book is first and foremost an in-depth look of his ownership of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway from 1927-1945 and not intended to be another biography of Rickenbacker’s life. A list of books of Eddie’s military life or his ordeal about being lost 23 days in the South Pacific, which I highly recommend reading, follows. Throughout the book, I listed key dates and headlines in United States history, in politics, sports and entertainment, that is intended to serve as a point-of-reference timeline throughout the Eddie Rickenbacker Era. Don’t cringe on certain typos—I purposely capitalize the “R” in Race in various places as my way of showing reverence to the Indianapolis 500. Other grammar and punctuation irregularities are my humorous middle finger to those former “composition 101” profs who used so much red ink correcting my themes.
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