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100	1		_aCillizza, Chris _q(Christopher Michael), _d1976- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aPower players : _bsports, politics, and the American presidency / _cChris Cillizza.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bTwelve, _c2023.
300			_a327 pages ; _c23 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505	0		_aMad man of the fairway : Ike teaches post-War America how to "relax" -- Master of the senate softball team : presidential power hitter -- Bowling alone -- "I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln" : a golf game that made Bob Hope and Chevy Chase famous... -- Underdog president attacked by wild rabbit : boycott backlash -- Win one for the Gipper : winning time for Reagan -- Horseshoes and handshakes -- Clinton -- Take Your Shot -- Smackdown! : presidential heel -- Presidents and pickleball.
520			_a"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 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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aPresidents _zUnited States _vBiography. _9726
650		0	_aPresidents _xSports _zUnited States. _9394384
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1945-1989. _934062
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1989- _915198
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