The games presidents play
Subtitle: sports and the presidency in the twentieth century
By: John Sayle Watterson.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
Subjects: Presidents -- Sports -- United States; Sports and state -- United States
Description: "The Games Presidents Play provides a new way to view the American presidency. Looking at the athletic strengths, feats, and shortcomings of our presidents, John Sayle Watterson explores not only their health, physical attributes, personalities, and sports IQs, but also the increasing trend of Americans in the past century to equate sporting achievements with courage, manliness, and political competence."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: In the beginning; title: The sporting frontier; title: Barely visible to press and public; title: Climbing the mountain; title: Sports and the presidency : the founding father; title: Inside the sporting presidency; title: William Howard Taft : a large legacy; title: Woodrow Wilson : more than a game; title: Warren Harding : a bet he didn't win; title: Calvin Coolidge : grace, under pressure; title: Herbert Hoover : no place to hide; title: Franklin Roosevelt : politically and physically challenged; title: Mid-century, the takeoff point; title: Harry Truman : striding; title: and flying; title: into history; title: Dwight Eisenhower : hero under assault; title: John Kennedy : swimming into politics; title: Lyndon Johnson : the games he didn't play; title: Richard Nixon : show me a loser; title: Gerald Ford : the pigskin president; title: Jimmy Carter : more than met the eye; title: Ronald Reagan : creating a sports legend; title: George H.W. Bush : TR revisted; title: Bill Clinton : oh, how he played the game; title: George W. Bush : from bush leagues to the majors; title: The sports presidency.