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Among this group of daring women was lady of leisure Evelyn Mull. Mull got her start in auto racing after accompanying her husband to a race, then impulsively deciding to enter herself. She quickly became a leading driver on the amateur circuit in the late 1950s.
Unlike Evelyn, Denise McCluggage didn?t come from old money. Covering the sport for the New York Herald Tribune, she was a sportswoman with the temperament of an artist. In her Greenwich Village neighborhood, there were two rare MG-TCs on the block: hers and the one belonging to a struggling young actor named Steve McQueen. It was inevitable that the two would meet and engage in a brief romance and an even longer friendship. In 1957, Denise began rivaling Evelyn for the top spot among women drivers.
Fast Women brings to life a group of intrepid women from the beginning of the sport to its heyday in the fifties in a narrative that possesses the dramatic velocity of great fiction.
作者简介 Todd McCarthy is the longtime chief film critic of Variety. He is the author of the 1997 biography Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood that is widely acclaimed as one of the best accounts of a film director?s life. McCarthy wrote and co-directed the award-winning documentary film Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography, and won an Emmy for writing Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Genius.
媒体推荐 "A biography of the great director,frequently a rotten guy but one whose artistic independence never failed." -- The New York Times Book Review on The Grey Fox of Hollywood
McCarthy, chief film critic for Variety, sets his sights on a much overlooked aspect of automotive history in this very engaging work. Equal parts social and sports history, Fast Women will be a revelation to those who believe they are on intimate terms with auto racing. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and culminating in the 1950s, when female drivers were at their most popular, McCarthy has gathered together dozens of personalities and personal histories in an effort to provide the most thorough primer possible on women in auto racing. Clearly, McCarthy conducted numerous interviews and did a staggering amount of research; nevertheless, although a selected bibliography is provided, there are no endnotes. Ultimately, the book serves best as an entry into the subject because McCarthy can give each driver only a few pages of notice before moving on to the next. The number of women drivers profiled can be quite dizzying, but readers will appreciate the wealth of fascinating information this dedicated author has uncovered. --Colleen Mondor -- Booklist, May 2, 2007
专业书评 From Publishers Weekly
Since autos ran on bicycle tires, women have been racing; McCarthy, chief film critic for Variety, covers the rich history of women's racing in a narrative running from the turn of the 20th century until just after 1958, when marketing and sponsorship concerns squeezed out the ladies. Although McCarthy attempts to "strip away every shred of nostalgia" in homage to his unsentimental subjects, he writes with clear, infectious admiration for these unique pioneers. Suzy Dietrich, for example, was an "enormously cute" librarian who broke record after record in her Porsche 550 Spyder. Denise McCluggage, "a plainspoken Kansan," fell in love with an MG and sent regular dispatches from behind the wheel to the International Herald Tribune. Though the impetus for the sport (and the book) came from the wealthy, McCarthy builds his narrative around its only-in-America transformation from aristocratic hobby to populist pastime by way of "an excitedly fluid meritocracy." McCarthy claims early on that "it was a single photograph that seduced me," of aristocrat speed demon Evelyn Mull, smartly arranged in an early sports car with white shirt cuffs, leather gloves and a neat bun; fortunately, 16 pages of such photos are included, making this well-researched text a comprehensive survey of auto racing's first females.
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