Outlaw Machine is the story of one of America's most enduring cultural icons. It tells the definitive history of Harley-Davidson motorcycles and their place in America's history.

Outlaw Machine: Harley Davidson and the Search for the American Soul

Engineering & Transportation

Yates, Brock

Automotive

Little. Brown and Company

The life of Enzo Ferrari, who made fast, red sports cars known for their precision and who ran a motor-sports empire that dominated automotive industry

Enzo Ferrari: The Man, The Cars, The Races, The Machine

Biographies & Memoirs

DOUBLEDAY

The Decline and Fall of the American Automobile Industry

The Decline and Fall of the American Automobile Industry

Vintage

Enzo Ferrari (Movie Tie-in Edition): The Man and the Machine

Professionals & Academics

Random House Trade Paperbacks

This first book of its kind tells the behind-the-scenes story of the incredibly illegal Cannonball rally. This best seller is now available in paperback!In the early 1970s, Brock Yates, senior editor of Car and Driver Magazine, created the now infamous Cannonball Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash; a flat out, no-holds-barred race from New York City to Redondo Beach, California. Setting out to prove that well trained drivers could safely navigate the American highways at speeds in excess of the posted limits, Mr. Yates created a spectacle reminiscent of the glory days of the barnstorming pilots. Filled with fascinating unpublished stories, nostalgic and modern-day photographs, inside information and hilarious stories from this outrageous and incredibly immoral rally. Brock is one of the best-known, most respected automotive journalists in the world today.

Cannonball!

Motorbooks

The legendary story of Harley-Davidson's rise to power--not only as an international industry leader but as an American cultural icon. How did the Harley-Davidson motorcycle, originally a machine for casual riders, evolve into a symbol of defiance and liberation? An embellished 1947 Life magazine article about a California town terrorized by gangs of motorcycle punks changed the world's perception of motorcycles from sporty machines to menaces-to-society, and as the loudest and heaviest bikes on the market, Harley-Davidsons were considered the baddest of them all. Outlaw Machine chronicles the fascinating social history that built Harley-Davidson's reputation--including the rise of Hell's Angels and the counterculture classic Easy Rider--and, more entrancing still, the bike's and its company's storybook rise to international fame and popularity. Written by renowned automotive journalist Brock Yates, Outlaw Machine is the definitive book on the Harley-Davidson and its place in American culture.

Outlaw Machine: Harley-Davidson and the Search for the American Soul

Humor & Entertainment

Crown

Against Death and Time: One Fatal Season in Racing's Glory Years

A columnist for Car and Driver and former sports analyst for CBS takes readers and racing fans back to 1955, glory days for race car driving in the U.S. as the sport rose above the cultural radar, gaining a chic status.

Sports & Outdoors

Individual Sports

Da Capo Press

For everyone who's ever wanted to know what it's really like to get behind the wheel of a racecar, automotive enthusiast Brock Yates lived the dream, and lived to tell about it. You'll smell the fumes and feel the heat rising from the track as Brock takes the reader through a refresher course at Bob Bondurant's high-performance driving school, then off to Watkins Glen, Michigan Motor Speedway, and across the country on an unsanctioned, hair-raising thirty-six-hour race from New York to Los Angeles. Sunday Driver is the perfect companion for anyone who has felt the need for speed, or just marveled as they watched their favorite driver race around the track at death-defying speed and wondered what it would feel like to be in the driver's seat.

Sunday Driver: The Writer Meets the Road -- at 175 MPH

Da Capo

Against Death and Time chronicles one fatal season in the post-war glory years of racecar driving. It is the story of the dispossessed young men who raced for "the sheer unvarnished hell of it." Yates has been writing for Car and Driver for more than thirty years and is one of the best-known people in the racing world. He raced his own car for a season in a Plimpton-like adventure recorded in one of his six books, Sunday Driver. He has published widely, from Playboy to the Wall Street Journal, and has appeared on every major television network as a racing and automotive industry commentator. Brock integrates unexpected and fascinating detail into this character-driven story of men compelled to compete against themselves, time, and death. His strategy of a fictional narrator observing, interrogating, and reporting on Brock's real-life protagonists imparts the immediacy of fiction to this minutely accurate account. The book is based on Yates's incomparable experience and interviews with dozens of surviving racers, widows, car owners, mechanics, and historians, and his deep research in the archives of the Speedway, the Detroit Public Library Auto Archive, United States Auto Club, Henry Ford Museum, Smithsonian Institute, and contemporary newspapers and periodicals.

Umbrella Mike: The True Story of the Chicago Gangster Behind the Indy 500

He was known as "Umbrella Mike": a hard man among the beautiful people. He moved among the elite of New York society with little notice, his sharply cocked fedora, his broad Irish face and his ever-present cigar setting him apart from the celebrities and socialites. Umbrella Mike is Michael Joseph Boyle, the corrupt leader of Chicago's most powerful union and himself a Chicago gangster on friendly terms with Al Capone. Passionate about high-class automobiles, Umbrella Mike was one of the few who could afford the luxury of racing during the hardship of the Depression. In 1937, dogged by adverse publicity and a barrage of disasters, the prestigious Vanderbilt Cup was held on Long Island. Brock Yates — noted editor, columnist and sports analyst and commentator — remarkably chronicles the dramatic events that unfolded during this most controversial of races — pitting against one another a Nazi poster child, a German-hating Swiss, and the brilliant American underdog who has a trick or two up his sleeve.

Historical

Thunder's Mouth Press

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Outlaw Machine: Harley Davidson and the Search for the American Soul

Enzo Ferrari: The Man, The Cars, The Races, The Machine

The Decline and Fall of the American Automobile Industry

Enzo Ferrari (Movie Tie-in Edition): The Man and the Machine

Cannonball!

Outlaw Machine: Harley-Davidson and the Search for the American Soul

Against Death and Time: One Fatal Season in Racing's Glory Years

Sunday Driver: The Writer Meets the Road -- at 175 MPH

Against Death and Time: One Fatal Season in Racing's Glory Years

Umbrella Mike: The True Story of the Chicago Gangster Behind the Indy 500