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We Have a Winner!|Railey Jane Savage

We Have a Winner! : America's Weird and Wonderful Races, Derbies, Pageants, and Eating Contests

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Overview

Celebrate America's outrageous competitive fire

  • 100 years of "see it to believe it" American contests
  • Includes dozens of mind-blowing, little-known competitions
  • Gorgeous design with 150 color and black-and-white photographs, plus sidebars

From marathon dancing, to food eating contests, beauty pageants, pole sitting, rotten sneaker contests, animal calling contests, phone-booth stuffing, outhouse races, and more, Americans love competing to see who can do anything better than anyone else. We Have a Winner! is a visually stunning tour, from coast to coast, through our often whacky, uniquely themed contests. Covering more than a century's worth of competition, and packed with photos and fascinating sidebars, this book shows how the American competitive spirit--as wacky as it sometimes is--mirrors American trends, innovation, and news.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781493029044
  • ISBN-10: 1493029045
  • Publisher: Lyons Press
  • Publish Date: October 2017
  • Dimensions: 8 x 8 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Page Count: 224

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