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Alex Gabbard, award winning author, photographer and poet.
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NEW RELEASE!
Historical fiction: 1772-1773 Based heavily on actual events.
Colonial Rhode Island during rising discontent with British rule that sent a succession of revenue vessels into Narragansett Bay to enforce Maritime Laws hated by colonists who practiced "free trade" (including piracy and bootlegging). Royal demands for taxes led to the nighttime capture, then burning of the HMS Gaspee, and near-fatally wounding its captain. The resulting King's Proclamation established a royal court to collar the raiders, prominent leaders of the area including John Brown, founder of Brown University. Widely condemned, this "inquisition" culminated in high drama between British ministers who set about to dissolve the colony, and colonial politicians who deftly handled the affair to their advantage while shaping the first "common cause" into the American frame of mind with "Committees of Correspondence" that were established to convey timely and accurate information between colonial assemblies, all some 3 years before the next exchange of fire at Lexington Green and Concord Bridge.
Casebound with dust jacket
ISBN: 0-9755358-2-X
216 pages
$24.95
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Non-fiction: Moonshiners tell their stories of mid-century Appalachain region illicite whiskey making from "nuthin' to do but hoe corn and make moonshine" to millions of gallons of "mountain dew" that flowed from backwoods stills to the cities. Ride with the "revenooers" who were sent to stop them and their illegal trafficking in homemade whiskey. Real life as it was. Also traces Robert Mitchum's 1958 movie "Thunder Road" and its real life connections in the Appalachian region.
"A darn good book." 5-stars - Amazon.com
ISBN: 0-9622608-3-5 2nd edition
Trade paperback with index
Illustrated, 240 pages
$11.95
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Lavishly illustrated history of Ford's spectacular era of world class racing, winning everything worth winning and beating the best from everywhere! Stock cars, drag racers, road racers, endurance racers, great engines, great cars, great men, history as it was made.
ISBN: 1-55788-327-0
8-1/2 x 11, softbound, 183 pages, fully ilustrated
Author signed and personalized. $17.95
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The story of FAST CHEVYS from introduction of the "small block" V-8 in 1955 models to modern times, then the "big blocks" of the '60s and later engines. Covers engine development in road racing - Corvettes, the Can-Am, '50s and 60s' era Chevy powered modified sports racing cars, Grand Touring Prototypes and more; drag racing - '50s era hot rodding to '60s era 409s, ProStock, "funny cars" and more; stock car racing - Chevrolet's initial involvement in the mid-50s, the "Mystery Engine" stockers of the early-60s, '70s and '80s and more; interviews with drivers, builders, engineers including Smokey Yunick, Zora-Arkus Duntov, Augie Pabst, Bill Devin, Dick Keinath, Junior Johnson, "Grumpy" Jenkins, Brian Redman, and more.
35th Anniversary of the small block Chevy edition.
ISBN: 0-9622608-0-0
240 pages, 8 1/2 x 11, softbound, fully illustrated, 16 pages of color
$19.95
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This Moto Award winning "Book of the Year" for Automotive Cultural History is a masterpiece coffee-table hardback spanning the world's great sports racing cars from 1903 to 1973, Allard, Aston Martin, Alfa-Romeo, Bentley, Bugatti, Cobra, Corvette, Ferrari, Jaguar, Porsche, and many more. The times, the entanglements, legendary drivers and cars, the great marques. Includes selected interviews with famous racing personalities and specifications.
ISBN: 0-89586-405-3
Casebound with dust jacket, 192 pages, color, illustrated, details and specifications of featured cars
Author signed and personalized. $25.00
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