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NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. — These were some of the scenes of resurrection here last Wednesday, 11 days before the first NASCAR race in more than 26 years at the North Wilkesboro Speedway:

If Josh Harris didn’t exist, Tom Wolfe would have had to create him, then tweet about him. Harris is a thoroughly modern Master of the Universe, a man who made billions in private equity and who, like Gordon Gekko, creates next to nothing but aims to own everything. And in…

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Writer Roger Angell died Friday of heart failure, according to The New Yorker.

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Author Ken Kesey, flush with cash from the publication of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” filled an aging, broken-down school bus with friends in 1964 and led them on a drug-fueled drive across America, later recounted in vivid detail in Tom Wolfe’s 1968 best-seller, “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.”