Natural Born Winner [Mass Market Paperback]

George Mair (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 28, 1998

THE NEED FOR SPEED

Racing star Jeff Gordon is hot. The youngest Winston Cup Rookie of the Year, the youngest winner of the Inaugural Brickyard 400, and the youngest Winston Cup champion, Gordon always knew he wanted to drive fast--and he meets that challenge every time he hits the tarmac.

In NATURAL BORN WINNER, author and journalist George Mair reveals what makes Jeff Gordon tick, what turns him off, and what makes him such a phenomenon. Is it his number 24 Monte Carlo? The Rainbow Warriors? The stepfather who paved the way for his success? His beautiful young wife? The millionaire sponsors? Or does he simply have an amazing gift for victory?

A must for every racing fan, NATURAL BORN WINNER tracks Jeff Gordon from his childhood in California and Indiana right up to the '97 NASCAR season, providing valuable insight on the man behind the hype!

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THE NEED FOR SPEED

Racing star Jeff Gordon is hot. The youngest Winston Cup Rookie of the Year, the youngest winner of the Inaugural Brickyard 400, and the youngest Winston Cup champion, Gordon always knew he wanted to drive fast--and he meets that challenge every time he hits the tarmac.

In NATURAL BORN WINNER, author and journalist George Mair reveals what makes Jeff Gordon tick, what turns him off, and what makes him such a phenomenon. Is it his number 24 Monte Carlo? The Rainbow Warriors? The stepfather who paved the way for his success? His beautiful young wife? The millionaire sponsors? Or does he simply have an amazing gift for victory?

A must for every racing fan, NATURAL BORN WINNER tracks Jeff Gordon from his childhood in California and Indiana right up to the '97 NASCAR season, providing valuable insight on the man behind the hype!

About the Author

George Mair is also the author of Bette: An Intimate Portrait of Bette Midler, Liza: Under the Rainbow, Rosie O'Donnell: Her True Story, Inside HBO, and The Barry Diller Story. Mair has been a CBS broadcaster, a Los Angeles Times columnist, chief public relations counsel to HBO, and an award-winning radio show host in Washington, D.C. Today he is a full-time writer.

Mair lives in Dana Point, California.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Ballantine Books; 1 edition (January 28, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345424190
• ISBN-13: 978-0345424198
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,592,438 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This is the worst book about Gordon written!, August 4, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Natural Born Winner (Mass Market Paperback)

I am a huge Jeff Gordon fan and I have read and enjoyed almost anything written about him, but I have nothing good to say about this book. It is poorly written and reads very slowly. The facts in it are already well known and are repeated over and over again. I have gotten more info about Gordon in a two paragraph newspaper artical then this contains. After reading it, I felt like I wasted time and money. In general, I would say, don't waste anything on this book, it's not worth it. I also feel George Mair needs to go back to school or get a new editor. A bad book for many reasons.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, but nothing to write home about, February 16, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Natural Born Winner (Mass Market Paperback)

I read this book hoping to get insight into Gordon's past, which I did get, somewhat. I've read articles that were more informative, but I did enjoy reading the book, mostly because I am a fan, so anything is something. This would have been a great book, had there been more substance and less repeated information. After reading it, I was glad I did because of the few things I did learn, but I probably won't read it again. From an editor's point of view, the mistakes in this book were constant and annoying. I'm a senior in high school, and the editor of our school newspaper, and I would be ashamed if these kind and quantity of mistakes were present in our paper.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible!, May 25, 2000

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Emily (Indiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Natural Born Winner (Mass Market Paperback)

This book was badly written for a couple of reasons. First of all, there are a lot of grammar mistakes, making it seem like it was just thrown together. Secondly, most of the information it contained is already very well known and some of it false. It contadicts itself in several places. There are quite a few good books out there about Gordon, but this is definatly not one of them.