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BL
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946263
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b700633
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| Main Entry
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Lewis, Catherine M.
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| Title & Author
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"Don't ask what I shot" : : how Eisenhower's love of golf helped shape 1950s America /\ Catherine M. Lewis.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: McGraw-Hill,, ©2007.
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xvi, 304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0071485708
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: 9780071485708
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-292) and index.
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| Contents
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Chapter 1: Golf Before Ike -- Chapter 2: The Golfing General -- Chapter 3: The Golfing Presidents -- Chapter 4: Golf in the Age of Ike -- Chapter 5: Ike's Fabulous and Fretful Fifties -- Chapter 6: Ike at Augusta -- Chapter 7: Don't Ask What I Shot -- Chapter 8: The Part-Time President -- Chapter 9: Citizen Ike.
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See the 1950s through the lens of Eisenhower's favorite pastime. Public awareness of President Eisenhower's obsession with golf led to his being simultaneously credited with the surge in the sport's popularity and criticized for running the country from a golf course. By his second term, however, Ike and golf represented a bygone era because, more than any other sport in America, golf's moneyed culture remained insulated from the race and class struggles that were transforming the country in the postwar period. Don't Ask What I Shot tells the story of how Ike's golf game functioned as a dual symbol of progress and provincialism. It also details Eisenhower's friendships with Bobby Jones, Arnold Palmer, Bob Hope, and Winston Churchill, among others.
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Eisenhower, Dwight D., (Dwight David),1890-1969-- Influence.
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Eisenhower, Dwight D., (Dwight David),1890-1969.
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Eisenhower, Dwight D.
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Eisenhower, Dwight D., (Dwight David),1890-1969.
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Golf-- Political aspects-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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Golf-- Social aspects-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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Golf-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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Presidents-- Recreation-- United States, Case studies.
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Presidents-- Sports-- United States, Case studies.
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Presidents-- United States, Biography.
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Freizeitverhalten
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Golf-- Social aspects.
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Golf.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Presidents-- Recreation.
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Presidents-- Sports.
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Presidents.
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Golf.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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973.921092
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| LC Classification
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E836.L48 2007
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