The Great Game of Politics

The Great Game of Politics: Why We Elect, Whom We Elect is a 2004 political science book by Dick Stoken that discusses the history and details of the Presidency of the United States from George Washington to George W. Bush.

Reception
Reception of The Great Game of Politics was generally critical.

Kirkus Reviews stated that The Great Game of Politics was an "Amateurish exercise in political history, turning on half-correct assumptions and half-formed arguments."

Publishers Weekly states "Serious students of the American presidency will find Stoken's thinking a bit simplistic as well as present-minded. And Stoken, an investor who has written several investment books . . ., writes more like a motivational speaker — he's prone to exclamation points — than a historian. But less-schooled readers may find some help in thinking about the approaching 2004 election."