The games presidents play [electronic resource] : sports and the presidency / John Sayle Watterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watterson, John Sayle.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Presidents--Sports--United States.

Presidents.

Sports and state--United States.

Sports and state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 402 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-393) and index.

ISBN:

1-4356-9191-1

OCLC:

923192750