Sports and the American Presidency : : From Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump / / ed. by Adam Burns.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• MitwirkendeR: Berrett, Jesse,; Birkett, Chris,; Burns, Adam,; Butterworth, Michael L.,; Chiles, Robert,; Crawford, Russ,; Dichter, Heather L.,; Gambrell, Rivers,; Hinds, Michael,; Kotlowski, Dean J.,; McGregor, Andrew,; Moore, Aaron J.,; Ohnesorge, Hendrik W.,; Rees, Elizabeth,; Silverman, Jonathan,; Smith, Shawn N.,; Swanson, Ryan,
• HerausgeberIn: Burns, Adam,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: New Perspectives on the American Presidency : NPAP
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

Offers an up-to-date overview of the developing and symbiotic relationship between the nation’s Commander in Chief and some of the nation’s most popular pastimesOffers an up-to-date overview of the developing and symbiotic relationship between the nation’s Commander in Chief and some of the nation’s most popular pastimesTraces the connection of sports and the presidency from Theodore Roosevelt to Donald TrumpAnalyses the relationship between the presidency, sports, and individual athletes, including themes such as fandom, advocacy of sports, and active participationIncludes exciting new research from emerging scholars, alongside analysis from more established voices in the fieldDonald Trump’s love of golf adds him to a long line of presidents who have a close association with sports. Indeed, golf might just be the leading presidential pastime, ever since William Howard Taft was photographed strutting the links against the advice of his predecessor Theodore Roosevelt. And it was Roosevelt, more than any president, who set the standard for linking the nation’s top job to its favourite physical pastimes. Starting with Roosevelt’s significant role in linking the presidency with fandom, advocacy of, and active participation in sports, this volume traces how occupants of the White House continued to develop these connections in various guises across the following century. Though historians have certainly not ignored such associations, the variety of case studies represented here provides a wider and more multidisciplinary selection of standpoints from which to assess the interactions between sports and the presidency than ever before.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: The Sporting Presidency -- Part One. Presidents and Their Sports -- 1 Theodore Roosevelt: Father of a Sporting Nation -- 2 Profile in Vigor: John F. Kennedy and the Quest for Athletic Excellence -- 3 “My Second Vocation”: How Richard Nixon Talked Football -- 4 “He’d Like to be Savior of the National Pastime”: Bill Clinton and the 1994–1995 Baseball Strike -- Part Two. Sports and Their Presidents -- 5 Fit to Govern? The Presidency, Running, and Perceptions of Strength -- 6 The Presidential Golf Paradox -- 7 From Wilson to Dubya: The Curious Case of Presidents and Rugby -- 8 The Sport of Presidents? Horse Racing, Politics, and Perception -- 9 Emissaries of Toughness: How Coaches Teamed with U.S. Presidents to Politicize College Football during the Cold War -- Part Three. Athletes and the Presidency -- 10 Brown Derby Bambino: Babe Ruth’s Celebrity Endorsement and the 1928 Presidential Campaign -- 11 Jackie Robinson and His Presidents: Political Endorsements and Civil Rights Advocacy -- 12 Sport, Merit, and Respectability Politics in the Election of Barack Obama -- 13 Donald Trump versus ‘Woke’ Athletes: Presidential Sport in the Age of Twitter -- Afterword: The State of Presidential Sport -- Index