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OverviewDonald 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Adam Burns , Rivers GambrellPublisher: Edinburgh University Press Imprint: Edinburgh University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.472kg ISBN: 9781399507950ISBN 10: 1399507958 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 31 May 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviews"The interdisciplinary nature of the volume should appeal to a wide variety of students and researchers.--S. B. Lichtman ""CHOICE"" Presidents have long pursued sport for both health and political purposes. In this timely, engaging, and up to date discussion of such relationships the editors provide an interdisciplinary examination that fills a gap in the scholarly literature. The concluding chapter, in particular, points the way for future research on an international scale. --Gerald R. Gems, North Central College The interdisciplinary nature of the volume should appeal to a wide variety of students and researchers. --S. B. Lichtman ""CHOICE"" This book should be read as much for its insights into turn-of-the-century Scottish society as for the biography, and I am left wishing that I had been acquainted with Patrick Geddes. --Frank Rennie ""Scottish Geographical Journal""" Author InformationAdam Burns is Head of Politics at Brighton College, UK. He is the author of American Imperialism: The Territorial Expansion of the United States, 1783-2013 (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), The United States: Reuniting a Nation, 1865-1920 (Routledge, 2020) and William Howard Taft and the Philippines: A Blueprint for Empire (University of Tennessee Press, 2020). He has also authored several peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century US, including for the journal Sport History Review. Rivers Gambrell is a research fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford. She is currently writing a book entitled Pigskin Politics: How Richard Nixon Reinvented the Presidency. She holds a doctorate in History from the University of Oxford, a Masters in Liberal Studies and Certificate in International Development Policy from Duke University, and a BA from Flagler College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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