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X-WR-CALNAME:History Book Festival Presents: Neal Bascomb - Faster
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SUMMARY:History Book Festival Presents: Neal Bascomb - Faster
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DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with the History Book Festival\, join us for a
  live\,\ninteractive talk with Neal Bascomb\, author of Faster: How a Jewi
 sh\nDriver\, an American Heiress\, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler's Best\
 ,\none of the books featured at the 2020 virtual History Book Festival.\nA
 s Nazi Germany launched its campaign of racial terror and pushed the\nworl
 d toward war\, a challenge to Hitler's dominance at the iconic\nGrand Prix
  auto circuit was mounted by three unlikely collaborators:\nRene Dreyfus\,
  a former top driver who had been all but banned by the\nmid-1930s because
  he was Jewish\; Charles Weiffenbach\, head of the\nstruggling automaker D
 elahaye\; and Lucy Schell\, racing enthusiast and\ndaughter of an American
  multi-millionaire. Their remarkable success\nwas a feat akin to African A
 merican runner Jesse Owens's triumph at\nthe 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Neal
  Bascomb is the author of several\nbestsellers\, including The Winter Fort
 ress\, Hunting Eichmann\, and The\nPerfect Mile. He lives in Philadelphia.
  Online program from the\nHistory Book Festival and the Lewes Public Libra
 ry. NOTE: this meeting\nis being conducted through Zoom. You MUST REGISTER
  to receive\ninstructions for joining the meeting. Venue: Lewes Public Lib
 rary.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:In collaboration with the History Book Festiva
 l\, join us for a live\, interactive talk with Neal Bascomb\, author of Fa
 ster: How a Jewish Driver\, an American Heiress\, and a Legendary Car Beat
  Hitler's Best\, one of the books featured at the 2020 virtual History Boo
 k Festival. As Nazi Germany launched its campaign of racial terror and pus
 hed the world toward war\, a challenge to Hitler's dominance at the iconic
  Grand Prix auto circuit was mounted by three unlikely collaborators: Rene
  Dreyfus\, a former top driver who had been all but banned by the mid-1930
 s because he was Jewish\; Charles Weiffenbach\, head of the struggling aut
 omaker Delahaye\; and Lucy Schell\, racing enthusiast and daughter of an A
 merican multi-millionaire. Their remarkable success was a feat akin to Afr
 ican American runner Jesse Owens's triumph at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.
  Neal Bascomb is the author of several bestsellers\, including The Winter 
 Fortress\, Hunting Eichmann\, and The Perfect Mile. He lives in Philadelph
 ia. Online program from the History Book Festival and the Lewes Public Lib
 rary. NOTE: this meeting is being conducted through Zoom. You MUST REGISTE
 R to receive instructions for joining the meeting. Venue: Lewes Public Lib
 rary.
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