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Sports and the American presidency
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- Book Synopsis
- Donald Trump's love of golf adds him to a long line of presidents who have a close association with sports. Indeed, golf might just be the leading presidential pastime, ever since William Howard Taft was photographed strutting the links against the advice of his predecessor Theodore Roosevelt. And it was Roosevelt, more than any president, who set the standard for linking the nation's top job to its favourite physical pastimes. Starting with Roosevelt's significant role in linking the presidency with fandom, advocacy of, and active participation in sports, this volume traces how occupants of the White House continued to develop these connections in various guises across the following century. Though historians have certainly not ignored such associations, the variety of case studies represented here provides a wider and more multidisciplinary selection of standpoints from which to assess the interactions between sports and the presidency than ever before.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781399507950
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press, (30 May 2024)
- Number of Pages
- 336
- Weight
- 508 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 156 x 23 mm
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