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Power Players - Sports, Politics, and the American Presidency (Hardcover)
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Power Players - Sports, Politics, and the American Presidency (Hardcover)
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A colorful look at how modern presidents play sports, have used
sports to play politics, and what our fan-in-chief can often tell
us about our national pastimes. POWER PLAYERS tells all the great
stories of presidents and the sports they played, loved and
spectated as a way to better understand what it takes to be elected
to lead a country driven by sports fans of all stripes. While every
modern president has used sports to relate to Joe Q. Public, POWER
PLAYERS turns the lens around to examine how sports have shaped our
presidents and made for some amazing moments in White House
history, including: - Dwight Eisenhower played so much golf he had
a putting green built outside the Oval Office!. (He also almost
died on a golf course while in office.) - How John F. Kennedy's
touch-football games with family were knowing plays to polish the
Camelot mystique. - People might not have related to the aloof and
awkward Richard Nixon but, hey, he would bowl a few frames just
like them. - Ronald Reagan didn't just play the part of "The
Gipper" for the silver screen, but truly adopted the famous
footballer's never-say-die persona. - George H.W. Bush once ran a
horseshoe league from the White House - with a commissioner and
brackets! (He would later claim to have come up with the fan
expression, "You da man.") - Bill Clinton's Arkansas Razorback
fandom was so intense that he could be found shouting at the
referees from a box at the basketball national championship game in
1994. - George W. Bush's not only owned the Texas Rangers but also
threw out the most iconic first pitch ever in the 2001 World
Series. - What really went down when Barack Obama played pickup
hoops with the North Carolina Tarheels. (He later won the state by
.3 percent of the vote.) - Donald Trump is the only president ever
featured in a professional wrestling storyline-and everything real
and fake that went with that. In the pages of POWER PLAYERS, a love
of sports shines through as the key to understanding who these
presidents really were and how they chose to play by the rules,
occasionally bluff or cheat, all the while coaching the country
into a few quality wins and some notorious losses.
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