sort of rebellious qualities that are so attractive to midcentury moviegoers, he was a blockaders. so calling moonshiners blockaders was drawing on this confederate heritage and making an explicit connection to that. these men who were carrying corn liquor in model ts and quickly transform into a folk hero status in the mountain south, carrying whiskey out of these mountain hollows where it is made, to atlanta, asheville, memphis, charlotte, north carolina, all destinations for bootleggers and when shiners. -- moon shiners. model t's are replaced by v-8's which seem to be tailor-made for this process. whiskey mechanics, that is what they were called. they would add extra carburetors to the engine, heavy tires. they would use up the suspension so that when going over mountain roads, the walls would not like. -- the bottles of moonshine would not break. the cars could go over 100 miles per hour once modified by moonshiners. by midcentury, the same people driving these cars were driven -- driving them in a different context. that is how the world of illegal whiskey making and nascar c

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by midcentury, the same people driving these cars, were driving these cars in a different context.hat is how the world of illegal whiskey making and nascar collided. i am giving a couple of cultural examples. i cannot show you this movie because i do not have it ready. this guy, we can tell he is a bad man. he has a leather jacket, police are frisking him, i don't know. [laughter] he doesn't much look like a mountain southerner that we imagine to be a moonshiner. this is robert mitchum, movie star from the 1950's in a movie called "thunder road" a famous road in north carolina which some people argue, would be the first road of nascar. moonshiners would race down the -- were driving the road at 100 miles per hour being chased by revenue agents. i cannot recommend it. i recommend hominy much more highly than "thunder road." does anybody know who this is? the dude. big lebowski. jeff bridges. a movie made on the article by tom wolfe about junior johnson in "the last american hero." i love this summary of this on imdb, "a young hell raiser quits his moonshine business to try to become

the clash and the siege of budapest was a set piece dual between the two monsters of midcentury europe. what has been called the one of eastern and central europe. here is stolen talking to the yugoslav communists talking about the savagery of their allies. one has to understand the soul of a soldier who has traveled 3000 kilometers from stalingrad to budapest. the soldier thinks he is a hero, everything is permitted. he is allowed to do anything. he is alive today and that tomorrow, he will be forgiven. it is wrong to take the point of view of the decent intellectual, one may say the decent human being. as a soldier said, the war crimes of the french, british, and americans were real of paled in comparison to the nazis and soviet. the soviet brutality continued to the civilians of the conquered countries of eastern europe. this is one of the key frequently forgotten inaugurations of the war. kalic is an associate a professor of military history at our great partners at the commanding school in fort leavenworth. his book and u.s. presidents and militarization was named an outstanding b