Start Over Please hold this item Remove from Book Cart MARC Display Return To Browse View/Export Marked Records Clear Saved Records
 
     
Limit search to available items
Record: Previous Record Next Record
Author Watterson, John Sayle.
Title The games presidents play : sports and the presidency / John Sayle Watterson.
Publication Info Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.


LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL 4th Floor  E 176.1 W3  8 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE

Descript xi, 402 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents In the beginning -- The sporting frontier -- Barely visible to press and public -- Climbing the mountain -- Sports and the presidency : the founding father -- Inside the sporting presidency -- William Howard Taft : a large legacy -- Woodrow Wilson : more than a game -- Warren Harding : a bet he didn't win -- Calvin Coolidge : grace, under pressure -- Herbert Hoover : no place to hide -- Franklin Roosevelt : politically and physically challenged -- Mid-century, the takeoff point -- Harry Truman : striding--and flying--into history -- Dwight Eisenhower : hero under assault -- John Kennedy : swimming into politics -- Lyndon Johnson : the games he didn't play -- Richard Nixon : show me a loser -- Gerald Ford : the pigskin president -- Jimmy Carter : more than met 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 -- The sports presidency.
ISBN 9780801892585 (pbk)
080188425X (hardcover)
0801892589 (pbk.)
Click on the terms below to find similar items in the catalogue
Author Watterson, John Sayle.
Subject Presidents -- Sports -- United States.
Sports and state -- United States.
Descript xi, 402 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents In the beginning -- The sporting frontier -- Barely visible to press and public -- Climbing the mountain -- Sports and the presidency : the founding father -- Inside the sporting presidency -- William Howard Taft : a large legacy -- Woodrow Wilson : more than a game -- Warren Harding : a bet he didn't win -- Calvin Coolidge : grace, under pressure -- Herbert Hoover : no place to hide -- Franklin Roosevelt : politically and physically challenged -- Mid-century, the takeoff point -- Harry Truman : striding--and flying--into history -- Dwight Eisenhower : hero under assault -- John Kennedy : swimming into politics -- Lyndon Johnson : the games he didn't play -- Richard Nixon : show me a loser -- Gerald Ford : the pigskin president -- Jimmy Carter : more than met 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 -- The sports presidency.
ISBN 9780801892585 (pbk)
080188425X (hardcover)
0801892589 (pbk.)
Author Watterson, John Sayle.
Subject Presidents -- Sports -- United States.
Sports and state -- United States.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL 4th Floor  E 176.1 W3  8 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE

Subject Presidents -- Sports -- United States.
Sports and state -- United States.
Descript xi, 402 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents In the beginning -- The sporting frontier -- Barely visible to press and public -- Climbing the mountain -- Sports and the presidency : the founding father -- Inside the sporting presidency -- William Howard Taft : a large legacy -- Woodrow Wilson : more than a game -- Warren Harding : a bet he didn't win -- Calvin Coolidge : grace, under pressure -- Herbert Hoover : no place to hide -- Franklin Roosevelt : politically and physically challenged -- Mid-century, the takeoff point -- Harry Truman : striding--and flying--into history -- Dwight Eisenhower : hero under assault -- John Kennedy : swimming into politics -- Lyndon Johnson : the games he didn't play -- Richard Nixon : show me a loser -- Gerald Ford : the pigskin president -- Jimmy Carter : more than met 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 -- The sports presidency.
ISBN 9780801892585 (pbk)
080188425X (hardcover)
0801892589 (pbk.)

Links and services for this item: