Race of the Century The Heroic True Story of the 1908 New York to Paris Auto Race

Julie M. Fenster is an author and historian who began her career at Automobile Quarterly, where her book Packard: The Pride won the Best Book award from the National Automotive Journalism Conference. The author of six additional books on a wide range of historical topics, she has written for American Heritage, the New York Times, and American History. Her previous book, Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made It, received the Anesthesia Foundation Award for best book of 2001. Fenster lives in upstate New York, where she drives her sports car (pictured) on roads that trace the route of the 1908 New York to Paris Auto Race. From the Hardcover edition.Fenster, Julie M. is the author of 'Race of the Century The Heroic True Story of the 1908 New York to Paris Auto Race', published 2006 under ISBN 9780307339171 and ISBN 0307339173.