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a model of historical scholarship...a pioneering exploration of historical events...a well-written, well-researched and well-organized book with an excellent index and good bibliography...incredible detail...good history and a 'good read' --<i>SAH Journal</i>; closes a gap in motor racing history...recommended --<i>The Automobile</i>; a lot of historic merit --<i>Hemmings Motor News</i>; superb in-depth examination of the behind-the-scenes...an excellent example of how automobile racing history should be written --<i>SpeedReaders</i>; an insider's look at one of the early twentieth-century's spectacular racing venues, replete with period photographs, records, statistics, and maps...greatly adds sports, social, and political history to Philadelphia --<i>Pennsylvania Heritage.</i>

a model of historical scholarship...a pioneering exploration of historical events...a well-written, well-researched and well-organized book with an excellent index and good bibliography...incredible detail...good history and a 'good read' --SAH Journal closes a gap in motor racing history...recommended --The Automobile a lot of historic merit --Hemmings Motor News superb in-depth examination of the behind-the-scenes...an excellent example of how automobile racing history should be written --SpeedReaders an insider's look at one of the early twentieth-century's spectacular racing venues, replete with period photographs, records, statistics, and maps...greatly adds sports, social, and political history to Philadelphia --Pennsylvania Heritage.

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Michael J. Seneca is a member of the Society of Automotive Historians, the Organization of American Historians and the National Council on Public History. He lives in Glendora, New Jersey.

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