The games presidents play sports and the presidency /

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Autor principal: Watterson, John Sayle
Autor corporatiu: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
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Taula de continguts:
  • 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.