Sports and the American Presidency : : From Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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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

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