02280nam a2200337 a 4500 ebr10256350 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 060216s2006 mdua sb 001 0 eng 2006005556 080188425X (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780801884252 CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)646769562 n-us--- E176.1 .W347 2006eb 973.09/9 22 Watterson, John Sayle. The games presidents play [electronic resource] : sports and the presidency / John Sayle Watterson. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xi, 402 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-393) and index. 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Presidents Sports United States. Sports and state United States. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10256350 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 14560 14560