Here's a curious and fun little book: The Gentlewoman's Book of Sports from the Pushkin Press of the London Library. It's a collection of articles written by woman, about sports they played, from a time (1892) when it was thought women could not, should not, do such things! A wonderful addition to my 'strong women' trail. :-)

Also along the sports trail (aka the 'you read what?' trail) was The Stupidest Sports Book of All Time: Hilarious Blunders, Bloopers, Oddities, Quotes, and More from the World of Sports, by Kathryn and Ross Petras. Absolutely hysterical! Points made for the other team, running the wrong way, dumb (really dumb sometimes) comments ... all in all a most enjoyable book.

Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford is the second book I've read by Clint Hill (with Lisa McCubbin). In the times before computers, files were kept on threats against the POTUS and his family. Information on the most serious was put on 3 x 5 cards and handed out to members of the Secret Service. This is how it was when Clint Hill started. What was it like to be responsible for their safety? And what about the president who liked to take unplanned detours to go get ice cream? Hill and McCubbins have a nice style, this is an easy to read glimpse of a job few of us know much about.

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