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Explores the relationship between US presidents, sport and athleticism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
Offers an up-to-date overview of the developing and symbiotic relationship between the nation's Commander in Chief and some of the nation's most popular pastimes
Traces the connection of sports and the presidency from Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump
Analyses the relationship between the presidency, sports, and individual athletes, including themes such as fandom, advocacy of sports, and active participation
Includes exciting new research from emerging scholars, alongside analysis from more established voices in the field
This book presents an overview of the symbiotic relationship between US presidents and some of the nation's most popular pastimes. Starting with Theodore Roosevelt's significant role in linking the presidency with advocacy of and active participation in sports, this book traces how occupants of the White House continued to develop these connections in various guises across the following century for both pleasure and political purposes.
Split into three thematic sections, the book approaches the topic from different but related angles to create a multidimensional portrait of the evolving relationship among the US presidency, sports and individual athletes, from the dawn of the twentieth century through to the Trump administration.
Contents
Contributors
Introduction: The Sporting Presidency - Rivers Gambrell and Adam Burns
Part I: Presidents and Their Sports
1. Theodore Roosevelt: Father of a Sporting Nation - Ryan Swanson
2. Profile in Vigor: John F. Kennedy and the Quest for Athletic Excellence - Hendrik W. Ohnesorge
3. 'My Second Vocation': How Richard Nixon Talked Football - Jesse Berrett
4. 'He'd Like to Be Savior of the National Pastime': Bill Clinton and the 1994-95 Baseball Strike - Christopher Birkett
Part II: Sports and Their Presidents
5. Fit to Govern? The Presidency, Running and Perceptions of Strength - Elizabeth Rees
6. The Presidential Golf Paradox - Aaron J. Moore
7. From Wilson to Dubya: The Curious Case of Presidents and Rugby - Adam Burns
8. The Sport of Presidents? Horse Racing, Politics and Perception - Michael Hinds and Jonathan Silverman
9. Emissaries of Toughness: How Coaches Teamed with US Presidents to Politicize College Football during the Cold War - Andrew McGregor
Part III: Athletes and the Presidency
10. Brown Derby Bambino: Babe Ruth's Celebrity Endorsement and the 1928 Presidential Campaign -Robert Chiles
11. Jackie Robinson and His Presidents: Political Endorsements and Civil Rights Advocacy - Dean J. Kotlowski
12. Sport, Merit, and Respectability Politics in the Election of Barack Obama - Michael L. Butterworth and Shawn N. Smith
13. Donald Trump versus "Woke" Athletes: Presidential Sport in the Age of Twitter - Russ Crawford
14. Afterword: The State of Presidential Sport - Heather L. Dichter
