Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler’s Best
- Section
- Deane’s Library
- Type
- Book Review
- Pages
- 368
- Author
- Neal Bascomb
- Published
- 2020
- Date
- Tags
- cars, sports, politics, race, biography
“I had trouble connecting with this book. It describes Grand Prix and rally racing of the 1930s – the ‘Golden Age of Auto Racing,’ this era is called. Racing, especially then, is, by nature, visceral and sensory, and I felt disconnected from it. The central theme is that Hitler and the Nazis used…”