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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Table of Contents:
- 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.