Champions, Cheaters, and Childhood Dreams: Memories of the Soap Box Derby, Revised Edition

Authors

Melanie Payne

Files

Description

From 1934 to the 1970s, the All-American Soap Box Derby pushed thousands of youths to use their curiosity, ingenuity, and determination to become the most famous kid in America. Through first-person accounts, Champions, Cheaters, and Childhood Dreams chronicles a history of the race from a hillside in Dayton to the corporate-sponsored, star-studded event it would become in the 1950s and 1960s. The influence of the Great Depression, World War II, the Civil Rights and feminist movements, Vietnam, and Watergate helped shape and transform the race from a simple amateur event into an American icon. The revised edition has been updated to include race histories through 2010.

"Punches are not pulled, praise is given when praise is due, criticism is leveled when called for." --totalbike.com

ISBN

978-1-935603-48-1

Publication Date

Fall 7-21-2011

Publisher

University of Akron Press

City

Akron, Ohio

Keywords

American, Akron, History

Disciplines

United States History

Recommended Citation

Payne, Melanie, "Champions, Cheaters, and Childhood Dreams: Memories of the Soap Box Derby, Revised Edition" (2011). University of Akron Press Publications. 153.
https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/uapress_publications/153