The presidents and the pastime : the history of baseball and the White House / Curt Smith.
Smith, Curt, author.
2018
GV867.3 .S658 2018
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The presidents and the pastime : the history of baseball and the White House / Curt Smith.
Author
Smith, Curt, author.
ISBN
9780803288096
9781496207418 (e-book)
9781496207395 (e-book)
9781496207401 (e-book)
Published
Lincoln ; London : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
Copyright
©2018
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 469 pages,18 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.
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GV867.3 .S658 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
796.3570973
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Presidents and the pastime : the history of baseball and the White House.
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Machine generated contents note: List of IllustrationsAuthor's Note 1. Beginnings (1700s to TR's, 1901-1909) 2. Power of Two (William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson, 1909-1921) 3. Triple Play (Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover, 1921-1933) 4. "The Champ" (Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945) 5. The Accidental President (Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953) 6. "From the Heart of America" (Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953-1961) 7. "The First Irish Brahmin" (John F. Kennedy, 1961-1963) 8. Larger Than Life (Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1969) 9. Nixon's The One (Richard Nixon, 1969-1974) 10. "Friendship, a Perfect Blendship!" (Gerald Ford, 1974-1977) 11. From Softball to Hardball (Jimmy Carter, 1977-1981) 12. The Gipper (Ronald, Reagan, 1981-1989) 13. The Baseball Lifer (George H. W. Bush, 1989-1993) 14. Our Man Bill (William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-2001) 15. W. (George W. Bush, 2001-2009) 16. The Pioneer (Barack Obama, 2009-2017) 17. The Donald and The Game (Donald Trump, 2017- ) Bibliography Author's Previous Works Index.

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