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For 30 years some of the most talented and bravest drivers have battled across the continents of the world to claim what is arguably motorsport's toughest prize: the World Rally Championship. Now a multi-million dollar, global technology battle and terrestrial television phenomenon played out over the frozen wastes of Finland, the dusty plains of Australia and the sun-kissed mountain roads of Corsica, the WRC has reached its 30th birthday. This book celebrates that important milestone and paints an exhaustively detailed picture of the people and personalities who have shaped this great sport. The Complete Book of the World Rally Champions provides a biographical account of the 65 men who have won at least one World Championship Rally since 1973. The biographies are compiled by the sport's leading writers and historians and complemented by stunning photography. The book includes a detailed and accurate statistical career record of each driver, plus highlights of all the significant cars.

DO YOU WANT TO TRAVEL IN TIME FROM 1973 TO 2020 AT THE SPEED OF A WORLD RALLY CAR AND ENJOY THE HISTORY OF THE MAXIMUM RALLY COMPETITION? The world rally championship is the most complete motorsport competition: ice, snow, mud, asphalt, sand... No surface can resist a WRC car and for this reason its drivers are the most complete in the automobile scene. We enjoy their street cars adapted for competition, their skidding, their spectacular jumps, their driving on the edge of forests and cliffs, seeking to start that second from the timer that differentiates success from failure while raising clouds of snow, dust or sand. But above all, the WRC is its history. Let's face it, there is no race we see without bringing back memories of his glorious past. You don't enjoy this sport so much without knowing its route, its history, the greatness of its legendary cars and drivers that come back to our minds every time the engines roar. In this book you can take a pleasant walk through its history in the form of simple keys to remember those wonderful years, or discover them if you are new to this sport to really know what that means. * The origin of the World Rally Championship and its first winner * The dominance of the Lancia Stratos in the early years and the glory of Munari * The rise of the FIAT 131 Abarth to the detriment of Lancia development * Björn Waldegard, the first official drivers' championship champion * The inclusion of 4-wheel drive and the German dominance of Opel and Audi * The push and entry on the scene of Peugeot * The tragedies of 1986 and the end of Group B * The golden age of the Lancia Delta and the rise of Juha Kankkunen * Carlos Sainz and his fight against Lancia's hegemony * The rise of Toyota and the Japanese dominance of the championship * The arrival of WRC regulations * The reign of Tommi Mäkinen * The coming to power of the Peugeot 206 and Marcus Grönholm * The era of French rule * The legend of Citroën and Sébastien Loeb * From French to French: Sébastien Ogier's reign and his multi-brand challenge * The end of Ogier's hegemony through Ott Tänak and Hyundai * 2020: the irruption of the coronavirus Enjoy the wonderful history of the World Rally Championship on this essential tour for any fan who wants to devour the true flavor of what this legendary competition entails and enjoy their races to the fullest.

The World Rally Guide is the perfect companion not only for the professionals who cover the World Rally Championship, but also for those passionate enthusiast in love with rallying. This is the first edition of the guide, a compilation of results, references and statistics for all the 596 rounds between 1973 and 2019. For the first time in the pages of the same book, you will find the special stage winners and the rally plates for each of the 596 WRC rounds. For each of the 38 drivers with at least three wins, you will find their complete WRC records. With more than 500 photos, The World Rally Guide is the perfect gift for any enthusiast.

The Electoral College has played an important role in presidential politics since our nation’s founding, but surprisingly little information exists about precisely how it affects campaign strategy. Daron R. Shaw, a scholar who also worked as a strategist in both Bush-Cheney campaigns, has written the first book to go inside the past two presidential elections and reveal how the race to 270 was won—and lost. Shaw’s nonpartisan study lays out how both the Democrats and the Republicans developed strategies to win decisive electoral votes by targeting specific states and media markets. Drawing on his own experience with Republican battle plans, candidate schedules, and advertising purchases—plus key contacts in the Gore and Kerry camps—Shaw goes on to show that both sides used information on weekly shifts in candidate support to reallocate media buys and schedule appearances. Most importantly, he uses strikingly original research to prove that these carefully constructed plans significantly affected voters’ preferences and opinions—not in huge numbers, but enough to shift critical votes in key battlegrounds. Bridging the gap between those who study campaigns and those who conduct them, The Race to 270 will provide political scientists and practitioners alike with fresh insights about the new strategies that stem from one of our oldest institutions.

The very beginnings of today's great sport of rallying

From the very first round in 1973 the rallying world has striven to push boundaries, forge passion and pursue excellence in the sport we love. Traveling through a time when uncertainty is an inevitable constraint that opposes consistency and even the strong ideas that constitute the guideline we strive to keep, The World Rally Guide pursues its mission. Powered by passion, the guide is once again intended to be the perfect companion, not only for the professionals who cover the series, but also for those passionate enthusiasts in love with rallying. The fifth edition of The World Rally Guide comes with a hard cover, rich in information, 440 pages, 641 rallies and 51 years with results, references and statistics. For the first time in the pages of the same book, you will find the special stage winners, the rally plates and the winners photo for each of the 641 WRC rounds. For each of the 80 drivers with at least one win, you will find their complete WRC records. With more than 600 photos, The World Rally Guide is the perfect gift for any enthusiast.

From the acclaimed economist-historian and author of The Marshall Plan comes a dramatic and powerful new perspective on the political career of Henry Wallace—a perspective that will forever change how we view the making of US and Soviet foreign policy at the dawn of the Cold War. Henry Wallace is the most important, and certainly the most fascinating, almost-president in American history. As FDR’s third-term vice president, and a hero to many progressives, he lost his place on the 1944 Democratic ticket in a wild open convention, as a result of which Harry Truman became president on FDR’s death. Books, films, and even plays have since portrayed the circumstances surrounding Wallace’s defeat as corrupt, and the results catastrophic. Filmmaker Oliver Stone, among others, has claimed that Wallace’s loss ushered in four decades of devastating and unnecessary Cold War. Now, based on striking new finds from Russian, FBI, and other archives, Benn Steil’s The World That Wasn’t paints a decidedly less heroic portrait of the man, of the events surrounding his fall, and of the world that might have been under his presidency. Though a brilliant geneticist, Henry Wallace was a self-obsessed political figure, blind to the manipulations of aides—many of whom were Soviet agents and assets. From 1933 to 1949, Wallace undertook a series of remarkable interventions abroad, each aimed at remaking the world order according to his evolving spiritual blueprint. As agriculture secretary, he fell under the spell of Russian mystics, and used the cover of a plant-gathering mission to aid their doomed effort to forge a new theocratic state in Central Asia. As vice president, he toured a Potemkin Siberian continent, guided by undercover Soviet security and intelligence officials who hid labor camps and concealed prisoners. He then wrote a book, together with an American NKGB journalist source, hailing the region’s renaissance under Bolshevik leadership. In China, the Soviets uncovered his private efforts to coax concessions to Moscow from Chiang Kai-shek, fueling their ambitions to dominate Manchuria. Running for president in 1948, he colluded with Stalin to undermine his government’s foreign policy, allowing the dictator to edit his most important election speech. It was not until 1950 that he began to acknowledge his misapprehensions regarding the Kremlin’s aims and conduct. Meticulously researched and deftly written, The World That Wasn’t is a spellbinding work of political biography and narrative history that will upend how we see the making of the early Cold War.