Curt Smith

Presidents and the Pastime (eBook, PDF)

The History of Baseball and the White House

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Produktbeschreibung

The Presidents and the Pastime draws on Curt Smith¿s extensive background as a former White House presidential speechwriter to chronicle the historic relationship between baseball, the ¿most American¿ sport, and the U.S. presidency. Smith, who USA TODAY calls ¿Americäs voice of authority on baseball broadcasting,¿ starts before Americäs birth, when would be presidents played baseball antecedents. He charts how baseball cemented its reputation as Americäs pastime in the nineteenth century, such presidents as Lincoln and Johnson playing town ball or giving employees time off to watch. Smith tracks every U.S. president from Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump, each chapter filled with anecdotes: Wilson buoyed by baseball after suffering disability; a heroic FDR saving baseball in World War II; Carter, taught the game by his mother, Lillian; Reagan, airing baseball on radio that he never saw¿by ¿re-creation.¿ George H. W. Bush, for whom Smith wrote, explains, ¿Baseball has everything.¿ Smith, having interviewed a majority of presidents since Richard Nixon, shares personal stories on each. Throughout, The Presidents and the Pastime provides a riveting narrative of how Americäs leaders have treated baseball. From Taft as the first president to throw the ¿first pitch¿ on Opening Day in 1910 to Obamäs ¿Go Sox!¿ scrawled in the guest register at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2014, our presidents have deemed it the quintessentially American sport, enriching both their office and the nation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496207418
• Artikelnr.: 55972550

Autorenporträt

CURT SMITH is a senior lecturer of English at the University of Rochester, a GateHouse Media columnist, and the author of sixteen books, including the classic Voices of the Game. He has written for such publications as Newsweek, the New York Times, and the Washington Post and has been named to the prestigious Judson Welliver Society of former presidential speechwriters. 

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Beginnings: 1700s to Theodore Roosevelt, 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
Index