The games presidents play : sports and the presidency / / John Sayle Watterson.
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 402 p. :; ill. |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Watterson, John Sayle. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The games presidents play |h [electronic resource] : |b sports and the presidency / |c John Sayle Watterson. |
| 260 | |a Baltimore : |b Johns Hopkins University Press, |c 2006. | ||
| 300 | |a xi, 402 p. : |b ill. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-393) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 533 | |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Presidents |x Sports |z United States. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Sports and state |z United States. | |
| 655 | 4 | |a Electronic books. | |
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