{"id":490898,"date":"2009-09-01T05:00:42","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=45115"},"modified":"2024-01-04T22:04:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T22:04:35","slug":"product-reviews-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/product-reviews-31\/","title":{"rendered":"[Book Review] Mark Donohue: Technical Excellence at Speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Mark Donohue: Technical Excellence at Speed<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">By Michael Argetsinger<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/PR200909-p1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-688963\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/PR200909-p1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1063\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/PR200909-p1.jpg 1063w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/PR200909-p1-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/PR200909-p1-1008x1024.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/PR200909-p1-98x100.jpg 98w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/PR200909-p1-770x782.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/PR200909-p1-293x298.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1063px) 100vw, 1063px\" \/><\/a>The difficulty in chronicling a career as diverse as Mark Donohue\u2019s is that there are so many tales to tell it becomes difficult to know, as Bob Seger says, \u201cwhat to leave in, what to leave out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because his three years of research yielded an amazing amount of anecdote and information, author Argetsinger\u2014for whom this is the follow-up to his award-winning Walt Hansgen biography\u2014has given us a book in a more novelesque style than we\u2019ve come to expect from publisher David Bull.\u00a0This in no way detracts from the finished product and may, in fact, be an embellishment, since a photo is reputed to be worth only a thousand words, and those replacing each \u201cmissing\u201d image have been put to excellent use.\u00a0Most readers will be familiar with the mainstream of Donohue\u2019s career, but this book looks deep inside the life that surrounded those achievements to illuminate the driven man behind them, and we cannot recommend it too highly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The basic edition is offered by Bull Publishing (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bullpublishing.com\">www.bullpublishing.com<\/a>) for the $39.95, and there is a limited-run Publisher\u2019s Edition ($99.95) featuring autographs from close Donohue associates and an audio CD where Mark discusses his experiences at the 1966 Daytona 24 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