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"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"""

"[This] book ticks all the boxes and delivers what its subtitle promises. It persuasively shows that sports and the American presidency are very much intertwined, and that sports can provide a useful lens to study politics.--Abhishek Khajuria, Jawaharlal Nehru University ""International Affairs"" 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"""

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Adam 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.

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