Tar Heel Lightnin': How Secret Stills and Fast Cars Made North Carolina the Moonshine Capital of the World

For much of this era, it was also the nation's leading producer of bootleg liquor.

Over the years, written accounts, popular songs, and Hollywood movies have turned the state's moonshiners, fast cars, and frustrated Feds into legends.

But in Tar Heel Lightnin', Daniel S.

Pierce tells the real history of moonshine in North Carolina as never before.