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fantastic team here in st. louis. i am personally so happy to be able to bring this event to you tonight. will be taking questions from the audience periodically throughout the event so please type your questions as a comment and i will read them as they come up and as we gather a couple comments. i will provide the links to buy "faster: how a jewish driver, an american heiress, and a legendary car beat hitler's best" in the comments so you will have that as well. they were the unlikeliest of heroes, rene dreyfus, a former top driver of the international racecar circuit had been banned from the best european teams and fastest cars by the mid 1930s because of his jewish heritage. charles -- had a down on his

luck automaker delahaye with best of which i his company as the world teeter towards the break. and lucy show, the adventurous daughter of an american multimillionaire -- the glory of her rally driving days. after nazi germany launched its campaign of racial terror and pushed the world towards war, these three misfits banded together to challenge hitler's dominance at the apex of motorsports, the grand prix. their quest for redemption culminated in a remarkable race that is still talked about in racing circles to this day, but which soon after it ended hitler attempted to completely erasing history. bringing to light this glamorous era and this court that defined it, faster chronicles one the most inspiring death-defying -- boulton, symbolic blow against the nazis during histories darkest hour.

the "new york times" best-selling author of lost in shangri-la and 13 hour says "faster" is a reminder of the power of heroes to inspire us in dark times. and the "new york times" best-selling author of go like kill says sport, politics and human passion collide in this sizzling right of book brings excitement of motor racing to life on the page is the easy task but he succeeds hugely. the victory over nazis is a victory for us all. tonight neal bascomb is the award-winning author and "new york times" best-selling author of "the winter fortress," the perfect mile, among others and he grew up in st. louis, so

welcome from afar. and now i'd like to bring neal into the conversation. so if you all were your watching could give a hearty round of applause for neal bascomb. >> hello, everybody. >> hello. >> thank you for the great introduction. >> decide you want to save for anyone watching that is not incredibly familiar with autoracing, with history of cars, for me personally this was such an incredible and very easy, not easy, but a very enthralling read. i appreciate the comparisons of this book as two boys in the vote and the seabiscuit.

or other sports that annoying thing about. i think this was very appropriately matched with those books. but not going to let neal talk a little bit about the book and tell you -- then i will come in and ask some questions. >> you bet. thanks again. it's nice to be talking to left bank books fans. i'm a native st. louis and, psych came -- actually was a new york and a very good friend of mine i was staying with asked me a press release, he was a "wall street journal" editor andy brought me this press release had received about this car, this little-known car by this manufactures name delahaye that had been resurrected, found in

this french château abandoned come bought by this american millionaire and restored and then raced. it wasn't just the sort of peculiarity i think is probably the best work of what this car looked like. kind of looked like a praying mantis on wheels at the back story itself that was profiled was this delahaye car, soon after the nazis invaded paris, hitler sent several of his henchmen to find the car and have it destroyed. he also sent individuals that ss officers to automobile clubs in france. all the records there were stolen, taken by the nazis and destroyed and have never been seen since. i was very intrigued by this story of what this car could

have done to engender such a response from hitler, and what was it about this car, what was it about the event of the grand prix that made it so important? and as as a begin to unfurl ths story about rene dreyfus who was a jewish driver and learned his back story and kind of the fact that he was a reluctant hero, his father was a conservative jewish faith. his mother was catholic. he didn't really ascribed any one religion or another. as he said, driving with his religion. but suddenly in the mid-\30{l1}s{l0}\'30{l1}s{l0}, 1938, he found himself forced into this position of being this symbol of the jewish people against the nazis. that sort of story at its heart coupled with the fact that this

tremendous female heroine, lucy schell, , at the heart of it, se was a rich american who could very well have just sort of wild away her days in paris in the new york. and instead she was just this very brave and brazen individual who became one of the earliest speed queens, female racecar drivers. she was one of the best monte carlo racecar drivers, best american. and then she decided at a certain point, 1936, to take on the germans and she would find, support, lead the development of the sports car and the team to defeat the nazis and that's were i was pretty much done at that point and then began over the course of roughly two years researching this really little-known story. there were very few mentions of it in any books, so it was kind of one of those stories that you had to dig up from the past.

interviewing family members,, going all over france in europe and elsewhere to discover the people who were involved in this story and on earth what exactly happened, why it happened and who these individuals were and what motivated them. so it's just a tremendously fun book. i wouldn't even call myself a car guy at the beginning of writing "faster" can but after spending about three years in this world and having the experience of even driving this restored delahaye racecar, i would call myself a car guy now. i would love to answer questions and make this as interactive as possible with my -- you know, this is my first ever book store virtual events i appreciate everyone coming. >> okay. i do have a couple of questions i wanted to ask from my reading.

the first that just struck me so much was how dangerous racing was and how many people perished from these races. like, whether they be spectators or the drivers or the mechanics, the race officials. with where the numbers kind of staggering to you, or was it just notable to me from the reading? >> no, it was actually staggering. a long time ago i wrote a book about the skyscrapers and the development of that in new york in the 20s, and i was alarmed at that point like every people actually perished in the buildings, but nothing compared to what the dangers of these racecar drivers. this period of time which many people called the golden age of

racing was also one of the deadliest times, he comes cars had really gone, going at the very best 100 miles per hour over the course of the race, going 200 miles an hour with no advancement whatsoever really of safety. today we have, people still die in racecar driving today but there are cages, they are wearing fireproof clothes, they of helmets, they're very insulated. at this time, , the '30s, even though the cars are going so much faster, they didn't even wear harnesses. they didn't have seatbelts. they literally had to break their legs against the side of the cockpit, the driver seat, in order to stay in the car sometimes. they had no helmet. they had a cloth cast and i was but it and, of course, no cage or anything like that. it would not be uncommon for drivers come for one or two drivers to perished every single

weekend in the grand prix. it was just absolutely devastating. and death, as rene dreyfus said, he became intimately aware of it. it followed you. it was your companion in the car. it was just something that you had to expect. so yeah, it was a very lethal sport at the time, and became even more lethal as countries begin taking their national pride on how fast their cars would go. naturally a part of what "faster" is about, that sort of nationalism that ended up infecting grand prix racing much as it did the olympics in 1936. >> another thing i noticed as i was reading was there a comparison made to the time and correct. i know there are a lot of

comparisons, or a lot of things that people may or may not disagree with. you did make some very spot on comments about the racial disparity that was happening then. but another thing that i am surprised that i even know about would be cars, like right before world war ii where automobile makers were stopping production of cars to focus on delivery vehicles, trucks. i think ford right now to stopping a lot of production of the cars and switching to trucks. i didn't know if those another just eerie comparison to the time, or if it's also kind of a

mile marker, if you will? >> i mean, i don't have anything to add to that, but one of the aspects of this story that was so compelling to me was the time. period. i've written about post-world war ii but i've never really concentrate on what happened in the '30s before the war. it was a time of actual people. obviously -- upheaval. people were coming out of the great depression and so automobile manufacturers at that point in time were very much impacted by that. and so delahaye which was an

automaker on the verge of bankruptcy 1932-1933, as you said, had to make this critical decision, are we going to build trucks? are going to build utility vehicles? are we going to continue with our cars that one critic said would probably best suited for a funeral procession, or are we going to try to do something different? and ultimately they decided in 33, 34 to race again, to build sports cars which was a really dramatic leap from what they were doing. similarly, you find the germans, mercedes and auto union also an absolute upheaval in this point in time, and try to figure out how they could survive and what they could do. so that is where really hitler comes into the picture in 1933 soon after he rises to power. he makes it kind of his mission

to revise the german automobile company and he says in his second speech he ever gave as the leader of the third reich was at the berlin motor show in 1933, and he said we're going to build the audubon, revive the automobile industry, and third, i'm going to dominate grand prix racing. answer all of that came about because of the economic, social, political upheaval that was happening at that point in time. i wouldn't be surprised that there are many reflections about of course in today. >> absolutely. back then the racecars they were building were designed, they were hoping to display them during the races for sale so

that people would buy these and drive them around. whereas today the racecars that we have are absolutely not appropriate for driving on any sort of street. when did that kind of break -- this is just my curiosity your when did it branch out from being sort of a showcase for cars that you could purchase to being such a specific sport? >> really, and this is because i wrote about that time. but i think it's very true, this really happen in the late 20s and the '30s. the difference, the split that you found. delahaye, for instance, which was, well, i guess the best way

to try to describe what delahaye did, which was the car company that lucy schell went to to build this grand prix racecar, then what the germans did with mercedes. with delahaye they are a fledgling automobile company. they decide with help of lucy schell to find and to build a grand prix racecar. but that stipulations from that of production, review the head of the company, was okay, will build a grand prix racecar but the engine, the chassis, really every part of the car needs to be able to be suited for building a passenger vehicle that we can sell to the general population. and so that of course puts a lot of different parameters and in

many ways roadblocks for exact kind of car, exact kind apart that can be built. it's much more difficult because it has those stipulations. if you look at what the germans did by contrast, the german cars, whether from mercedes or union were called -- because of their sort of sleek, modern aluminum body design. those cars, those engines, the design can everything about them had no -- there was no chance they're going to be passenger vehicles. a were explicitly built, the side, build, manufactured to be grand prix racecars, and that's it. they were not concerned about selling those vehicles to the general population. their victory on the grand prix

had commercial aspects to it because it was good advertising for their company. we can build the fastest cars in the world so by our passenger vehicles. but they had no other correlation other than that. they were largely built and invested in as both propaganda for mercedes and auto union but also propaganda for the third reich. every aspect of the millions of dollars or marks that the repoo their coffers to build these cars were at the nationalistic gambit. to be the best in the world. that's exactly what they were forever a long time. >> switching pace a little bit, your research.

so a question i would like to ask, when you were doing your research was or something that you found that was so striking and so like such an incredibly interesting fact that maybe it didn't fit into this book but that may be like something want to working to a future book, or something that you just were so struck by that didn't make its way into the book that you wish it could have in some way? >> i think that's a hard question. i can't think of anything really specific that i found in the research that i was like oh, , i wish i could use this but i just can't. i mean, the story of one aspect of one part of the story of rene dreyfus sort of post all these events in the story i tell, he

lived kind of two two separate lives. he was a racecar driver in the story i tell them "faster," like that's his story. but after break of world war ii he left the united states and had this totally dramatic, incredible second part, second existence. he joined the u.s. army. he was involving invasion of italy, helped free europe from the nazis and then went back to the united states, brought his family there, his brother, sister, and ended up starting probably one of the most successful french restaurants in new york city. and became the sort of picture of new york, a fixture on the restaurant scene at this

restaurant, and live the rest of his life and died a new yorker. in "faster" that's given maybe four sentences, eyes, maybe a paragraph but you could write a whole book about that. in fact, his autobiography, his memoir is called my two lives for exactly that reason. racecar driver, who then becomes of course this restaurant to her. the other part of the research data probably couldn't get as much in as i wanted to was the remarkable story of these speed queens, the likes of lucy schell, this whole sort of generation of women in the late

20s and 30s who really pioneered, being part of car racing, sort of thought all this sexism, inherit sexism, and just really in many ways broke the crew class ceiling on that. you see the danica patrick's of today but they owe their presence in many ways to lucy schell and to her sort of camaraderie of women who did everything to do with they love, which was to raise cars. again, i won't be the one doing it but anyone is out there listening, there is a great to be written about these early speed queens, and i strongly recommend someone do it.

>> -- they one separate awards but they were racing at the same time as the male drivers, is that correct? >> so, yeah. it depends on the race. in the grand prix itself, the grand prix to put in present-day language, there's a set dictate of what kind of car you can have, a set race, and a season, and women were not in that in the 1930s. separately from that though there was all kinds of different sports car races. there were rally races like monte carlo races, the most famous but races, 3000 miles on one point to the next, get there as quickly as you can. as well as races like in italy,

3000 miles or other races like that. all kinds of different races that intermixed men and women. lucy drove, partnered with her husband and almost one monte carlo rally three times she also competed in all-female event as well, and those were quite popular. [inaudible] >> than male ratios sort of looked down on the female racers but i venture to say probably better rally drivers than the men were, probably quite easily. if the with the same number of women driving rallies as then, i -- [inaudible]

>> i think you cut out a little bit there. the last part? >> the women were probably better rally drivers, you know, long-distance drivers than the men themselves, and lucy sort of proved that point. >> a reminder for anyone who is watching if you have any questions, be sure to type them in the comments and i will read the text also reminded that the book is available for sale. it is absolutely a perfect book for readers of history, or readers that like the kind of, oh, i lost the word, like a come from behind sports story, like the mighty ducks.

seabiscuit, so if you have any questions involving history or involving car racing, because i know i knew very, very, very little about the history of car racing before this. i probably -- i don't know what even thought about car racing. i thought, oh, yeah, something that started in the '60s, 70s, and like american deaths with nascar happened. i've been to the nascar, or indianapolis speedway. i've been there but i was a child and i don't remember everything i read when taking the museum tour. it was really, it's a sport that i didn't appreciate the history

of, and this book does a really good job, a really fantastic job of making that sport into something that a person really likes to read micro-histories can really appreciate and enjoy. >> i mean, i think, i really wasn't a car guy before i started this, and in many ways, you know, not to beat the clicée but the car was kind of just a vehicle, right, of this story of these individuals like rene dreyfus and the lucy as well as a german driver who was sort of a nemesis was drawn into representing the third reich. reluctantly but ultimately did so. and the sort of conflict between rené and rudy were good friends at one point, was fascinating --

was fascinating to me. in many ways it's no different than if you think of stories about b-17 bombers and world war ii. no one really cares that much about the bomber or the plane except the individuals in it fighting for the u.s. and for the freedom of europe. so in many ways the same thing, and racing is the same thing. it's just a vehicle in which they fought their fight. >> i had a question but -- oh spitters i will drink my old-fashioned wall you think. >> honestly, how reluctant do you think you are what i know you say that, it is kind of demonstrated, but in a lot of ways like i kind of, again, the

more i read about nazi history and the more i see people kind of turning a blind eye and ignoring certain aspects of the party and ignoring what they don't want to see, but in a lot of ways even when they were ignoring and when -- and they still were supporting and still very much in favor of, like, part of the mission. so whether or not they were fully complicit, which a lot of people in the nazi party may be were not, but how personally -- [inaudible] i know he was involved early. how reluctant do you think he completely was? >> it's a great question. the way to answer it is to sort

of track sort of his story. rudi caracciola was, you know, he won his first grand prix race in 1926. he was a huge celebrity, top driver in germany by 1932, 33. he knew of the nazi party. he was not a participant in it, not a member of it at that point in time, but then because of the great depression a lot of car companies were abandoning grand prix racing, colluding mercedes and outer union. so by 1933, early 34, rudy had a terrible car accident so it was kind of crippled, had just lost his wife in a skiing accident and sort of had, the only thing left in his life was racing and

getting back into racing. and with the rise of hitler and his investment in automobile racing and grand prix racing, the opportunity presented for rudi was joined the nazi party, become a representative of, or never race again. and i think the answer to that question for him was not even a reluctant one, even though he didn't believe in the ideology or even necessarily, definitely not the sort of anti-semitism even. but i don't think he hesitated. i think he joined -- i know he joined straight away. he thrived, he did everything he could to get back into shape to join the team.

because racing was his life and there's nothing else for him. so he was willing to do whatever it took, subscribed to the ideology if it meant he could race again. i'm not apologizing in any way for rudi, because it's very clear by 1936, 37 when the germans announced sweeping the grand prix every single year, rudi was at the top of the mercedes team. he is a hero of the reich. he meets frequently with hitler. he is pitching propaganda. he writes editorials. he presents himself in films as i hero of the reich. having read everything about them, memoirs, people who knew

him in interviews, et cetera, still did not subscribe to the ideology, didn't really much care like hitler but was willing to do whatever it took to be the top racecar driver in the world. it's a complicated story and he was a complicated individual, but i think that he ultimately sacrificed his soul for racing. >> and similarly, lucy and -- i'm forgiving -- >> charles and renée. >> like, they also, yeah, they also were doing anything to be able to race. i mean, yeah, you can definitely see like the good versus evil type play out, but similarly

they were very much willing to do anything and to drive, to race. >> so you can definitely see that in their stories as well. [inaudible] -- but they knew, right? rudi and his fellow members on the german racing team, then you what hitler was doing, you know, even before the war. they knew the sort of torture, imprisonment of the jewish people, germany, and yet they were still willing to be a representative of that country. and rudi didn't even live in germany. he was living in switzerland and quite easily have just sort of

walked away, but he didn't. and like you said, for rené, for lucy, for rudi, there was something about the life of racing that was so much in their blood that they couldn't abandon it. and both rudi and rené both right and speak about how nothing else in life, they never ever felt really comfortable in the world or at peace in the world except for when they were driving, when they were racing. like, for them that was the highlight of their life, the best times, the best moments, that sort of clarity, purpose, clarity of mind, that feeling of being in the flow, of being in the racecar, that was everything

for them and they were willing to die for it, and for rudi, he was willing to compromise as well. >> if anyone has any questions -- jim donahue says the book is fantastic. your best, the what, a bit partial to hire. we have a comment. i was hoping it was a question, but thank you. >> thank you, jim. higher was my first book. i've been higher, "faster," and now i'm not sure i'm doing longer. >> is stronger next? >> stronger, probably not. [inaudible]

>> have you started working on your next book? >> i have actually. most of my books, i now translate for the young adult audience, so "faster" would be for seventh and eighth grade and ninth graders or older what i call the racers, scholastic publishes them i've done this now, this will be my fourth book like that come sort of in tubac edition. my next book will be exclusively young adult book, written originally for young adult, nonfiction, about gandhi sort of first big nonviolent peace movement, which was the salt march in 1930 which has sort of epic consequences for the freedom of india. it's kind of the story of gandhi told in this, as you said kind

of a micro-history of this one seminal moment in his life and telling the story of gandhi and the peace movement through this one dramatic event in 1930. and i'm super excited to write it originally a young adult audience. as my younger daughter said, it will probably be your best book because your writing it for me. so there you go. >> some of my friends have joined us. jim also says this book seems perfect for film, which i agree. are the rights sold? >> so yeah, so the rights sold to this company called imperative entertainment right when i submitted it to my publisher and so now it's being

developed. we're almost done and i think they are hopefully going for directors soon. so yeah, i mean, of course i would like to see all my books made into silver so fingers crossed that this will make it. it is very cinematic, you know, the race is a sort of ultimate race in the story which was in 1938 which was a very narrow french village near the pyrenees mountains, like just the scenery and imagining them racing and that would just be incredible. >> i agree. i would love to watch this film, and i love, i love sports films. i love sports. i just don't like sports.

[inaudible] >> anyone who knows steven spielberg please feel free to send him a note. >> and i'll put back on my racing scarf for my audition. >> excellent. get a mention the bookplate? >> yes, thank you. >> i got these nifty bookplates, so these -- go ahead. >> sorry, i was going to say that in anyone does what one of the fantastic bookplates, just we order the book from left bank books you can write a note saying he like it sign that someone and i will contact neal to have him sign the book to you or to one of your friends or to

my father who i am sure will love this book as much as i did. and tell us who designed to those. did they design the cover and ie bookplate, or just the bookplate? >> this is the cover. this is the cover art. they just used this sort of, this was the originally illustrated so they just use this on the bookplate. just keep your -- i'm happy decided and write comments, not long paragraphs. not a very big bookplate. >> i love the cover. the cover draws people in i think very well. i wish the people were able to shop in our story to be able to -- >> that would be better. >> it's a really hard time for book two, especially a book that

deserves as much praise and attention as yours does. i hope that it continues to find the hands of readers that it needs to find. any other questions? [inaudible] >> it's really our pleasure. and you being from st. louis, we want to support local authors. when did you move away from st. louis? i forgot to ask you that. >> at 18. basically after, a citizen went to college, i had to -- i haven't lived there since but my family lives there and they still have a lot of family in st. louis, so it always has a font place and i always love coming back. hopefully next time i am there i will swing into left bank.

>> yeah. definitely say hi because we never actually met so that will be fun. so i guess is or anything that you feel like we haven't talked about? i know there are a couple things we haven't talked about the probably are leading into the climax and things like that, but is anything else you feel like readers really might be curious about that would convince the book if they haven't already been? >> you know, honestly, i just can't say enough about lucy schell, just because she was, you know, as i was telling earlier when we were talking before we went live, i've written a lot of different kinds of books, this is really the first book where there's a sort of, a woman at the heart of it,

who is the hero of the story, and she was just so fun to write about, you know? sometimes different chapters are easy to write, some are harder to write and fms up every time i was was writing about lucy, that the words just sort of port out of the and she kind of burst from the page quite easily. .. >> what she was saying and various sources. and she just is so easy to write and fun to write and it's

kind of like the hidden figures kind of individual in this story and it's just amazing to me that i'd never heard of her, having read history over time, and you know, i can't tell you if i've every spoken to one person over the course of the last three years that heard her name. shes with a the first woman to run a grand prix race team and she was one of those individuals that the new york times should write the obituary, a post-dated obituary about because she very much deserves one and the book sort of resuscitates her part in this. >> did you talk to any of the descendents of the characters

in the book? >> i did. sadly, lucy, she had two sons, one harry was a very good race car drive himself died race. she had another son, phillip who also died several decades ago. so, didn't renee didn't have any children and dead end, dead end, dead end, but ultimately the driver's family when they'd meet evelyn, had kept through the sort of family lore tons of scrap books about her, her uncle, you know, hundreds of pages of articles that had been written in french and italian and english offer the course of 40 years, 50 years, what people talked about at his funeral, i

mean, everything. and of course, knew renee quite well and knew stories of lucy and others, and so the book benefitted from her sort of overwhelming generosity in the course of this book, not only photographs, but in diaries and letters and family history and so, ultimately got all the taped interviews that rene gave over the course of years to his biographer for his book and if you know anything about writing books, only a portion of what you research is in the book. and i had of the benefit of hours and hours of these tapes and so, hopefully i'm able to tell the story in a viceral way that makes you feel like you're there and you understand rene

and lucy and rudy. >> and the next comment is not a question either, but is actually from my sister, so that is really cool. [laughter]. i didn't realize my sister was watching. i've got a bunch of friends watching, which is awesome, yeah, because i very much like this is going to be-- if my father is not watching i don't think it's going to be a surprise, but he's going to get this for, i don't know what holiday, what gift giving holiday coming up next, but probably can't wait until his birthday, probably needs the book, probably getting a book placed for him and sent in the mail until i can see him next. >> that's sweet. >> well -- yeah. and this is, it's a good way to

think about current events without actually thinking about current events. >> for sure. >> yeah, and it's so fast-paced. so, yeah. agree with that, the viewers. oh, father's day is coming up, yes, father's day is coming up. i forgot about that. >> i like your sister's thoughts. >> yes, she's fun. she finally got the kids to bed. yeah, and she's in des moines. my brother is in kansas city with my parents, so, yeah. we're all over the place, i'm glad that she was able to stop in and watch. and the perks of being able to do virtual events is people from all over the country and the world that could join us that would not have been able

to do so and we've been doing this in the store. >> absolutely. but i'm still looking forward to-- >> yes, that experience is one that i am sad that people are missing out on about you this is also a fun experience, so, yes. >> all right. well, i think that we will probably, i guess, wrap this up, unless we have any other questions because we want to leave people on a little bit after cliff hanger to encourage people to read books. and want to thank neal and getting to hear more about the book. >> thank you. thank you, shane. thank you for left bank books. thank you. >> and you can order them the

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