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A tale of risk, excitement, and daring as four Americans race to win the gold medal in the most dangerous competition in Olympic background. Within the 1930s, as the entire world hurtled toward war, speed was all the rage. Bobsledding, the most effective and most exciting way to travel on land, had become a feeling. Exotic, interesting, and brutally dangerous, it was the must-see event of the 1932 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, the first Winter Video games on American garden soil. Bobsledding required exceptional skill and extraordinary courage - qualities the American team had in abundance. There is Jay O'Brien, the high-society playboy; Tippy Gray, a scandal-prone Hollywood has-been; Eddie Eagan, world champ heavyweight boxer and Rhodes scholar; and the charismatic Billy Fiske, the true heart and soul of the team despite being hardly out of his teens. In the solid of the fantastic Depression, the country was gripped by the storyplot of the four men, their challenge against jealous local people, treacherous US officials, and the very same German athletes they would be struggling with against in the war only a few brief years later. Billy, in truth, went on to speak his way into the Royal Air Make - despite their Brits-only insurance policy - and was there to struggle the Nazis during the Challenge of Britain. King of quickness to the end, he would end up being the first American fighter pilot killed in WWII. The exploits of Billy and his teammates make up a story that spans the globe, from Golden Get older Hollywood to seedy NY gambling dens to the most elegant Western resorts, the South Seas, and beyond. Causing the glamour and recklessness of the Jazz Get older, Speed Kings will joy listeners to the last minute.
