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Fan in Chief - Richard Nixon and American Sports, 1969-1974 (Hardcover)
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Fan in Chief - Richard Nixon and American Sports, 1969-1974 (Hardcover)
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Some presidents throw out baseball's first pitch of the season.
Some post picks for college basketball's March Madness. One might
tweet about a football player kneeling. President Richard M. Nixon
phoned Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula to suggest plays for the
Super Bowl. He hosted players in the 1969 Major League All-Star
game for a party deemed the strangest since the mob scene during
Andrew Jackson's inauguration. He attended a Washington Redskins
practice to boost moral; altered the NFL's policy for televising
home games; introduced the practice of calling teams after Super
Bowl or World Series wins. The list goes on, but the point is
clear: Richard Nixon was the nation's first sports super fan to
occupy the Oval Office. And this, Nicholas Evan Sarantakes
suggests, may explain why Nixon, so despised for all his faults and
failings, was nonetheless also widely loved by the American public.
In Fan in Chief Sarantakes Sets out to show how Richard Nixon's
passion for sports, more than policy positions or partisan
politics, engaged the American people-and how Nixon used this
passion to his political advantage. Fan in Chief takes place in the
realm of political theater, a theater in which the president's role
was perfectly genuine. A true fan, Nixon exposed core elements of
his personality, character, and values in the world of sports;
through sport he could connect and communicate with the character
and values of his fellow Americans. Fan in Chief is thus a story of
both personality and politics; but more than that, it is an
in-depth exploration of what Richard Nixon's love of sport can tell
us about the man and his times.
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