The games presidents play : sports and the presidency / John Sayle Watterson.
2006
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Ebrary electronic monographs.
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The games presidents play : sports and the presidency / John Sayle Watterson.
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Imprint
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Description
xi, 402 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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In the beginning
The sporting frontier
Barely visible to press and public
Theodore Roosevelt : climbing the mountain
Sports and the presidency : the founding father
Inside TR's sporting presidency
William Howard Taft : a large legacy
Woodrow Wilson : more than just a game
Warren Harding : the wager he didn't win
Calvin Coolidge : grace, under pressure
Herbert Hoover : no place to hide
Franklin Delano Roosevelt : politically and physically challenged
Harry S. Truman : striding
and flying
into history
Dwight D. Eisenhower : hero under assault
John F. Kennedy : swimming into politics
Lyndon Johnson : the games he didn't play
Richard Nixon : show me a good loser
Gerald Ford : the pigskin president
Jimmy Carter : more than meets the eye
Ronald Reagan : creating a sports legend
George H.W. Bush : TR revisted
Bill Clinton : oh, how he played the game
George W. Bush : from bush leagues to the majors.
The sporting frontier
Barely visible to press and public
Theodore Roosevelt : climbing the mountain
Sports and the presidency : the founding father
Inside TR's sporting presidency
William Howard Taft : a large legacy
Woodrow Wilson : more than just a game
Warren Harding : the wager he didn't win
Calvin Coolidge : grace, under pressure
Herbert Hoover : no place to hide
Franklin Delano Roosevelt : politically and physically challenged
Harry S. Truman : striding
and flying
into history
Dwight D. Eisenhower : hero under assault
John F. Kennedy : swimming into politics
Lyndon Johnson : the games he didn't play
Richard Nixon : show me a good loser
Gerald Ford : the pigskin president
Jimmy Carter : more than meets the eye
Ronald Reagan : creating a sports legend
George H.W. Bush : TR revisted
Bill Clinton : oh, how he played the game
George W. Bush : from bush leagues to the majors.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-393) and index.
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English
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
ISBN
080188425X hardcover alkaline paper
9780801884252
9780801884252
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