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100 1 Watterson, John Sayle.
245 14 The games presidents play :|bsports and the presidency /
|cJohn Sayle Watterson.
260 Baltimore, Md. :|bJohns Hopkins University Press,|c2006.
300 xi, 402 p. :|bill. ;|c24 cm.
505 0 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.
650 0 Presidents|xSports|zUnited States.
650 0 Sports and state|zUnited States.
