The Games Presidents Play: Sports and the Presidency Paperback - 2009
by John Sayle Watterson
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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.
From the opening pitch of the baseball season to presenting awards to Olympic champions, our sports culture asks the president to play an increasingly active role. Sports, Watterson argues, open a window into the presidency, shedding light on presidential behavior and offering new perspectives on the office and the sporting men--and women--who have and will occupy it.
John Sayle Watterson is an adjunct assistant professor of history at James Madison University. He is the author of College Football: History, Spectacle, Controversy, also published by Johns Hopkins.
Sports historian Watterson suggests that presidents' athletic endeavors reveal a lot about their actions in office . . . An enjoyable study of politics and culture.--Publishers Weekly
A wry and perceptive work.--Booklist
With a presidential campaign on the horizon, Watterson introduces an intriguing way of evaluating presidential fitness for office--and opportunities for sports fans to try out for the job of pundit.--Richmond Times-Dispatch
[Watterson] documents the link between sports and the Presidency well and even credits Theodore Roosevelt with 'the twentieth-century sporting presidency.'--ESPN, ESPN.com
It is the closest thing to the definitive work on the subject yet produced, and likely will remain so for quite some time.--Journal of American Culture
--Barbara Rich "Daily Progress"Details
- Title The Games Presidents Play: Sports and the Presidency
- Author John Sayle Watterson
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
- Date 2009-05
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780801892585 / 0801892589
- Weight 1.06 lbs (0.48 kg)
- Dimensions 8.98 x 5.72 x 1 in (22.81 x 14.53 x 2.54 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Dewey Decimal Code 973.099
Media reviews
Citations
- Reference and Research Bk News, 08/01/2009, Page 52
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