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Obama, the Media, and Framing the U.S. Exit from Iraq and Afghanistan /
Situating Obama's end-of-war discourse in the historical context of the 2001 terrorist attacks, this timely book begins with a detailed comparison with the Bush war-on-terror security narrative before examining elements of continuity and change in post-9/11 elite rhetoric. Erika King deftly emp...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Farnham, Surrey, UK ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Situating Obama's end-of-war discourse in the historical context of the 2001 terrorist attacks, this timely book begins with a detailed comparison with the Bush war-on-terror security narrative before examining elements of continuity and change in post-9/11 elite rhetoric. Erika King deftly employs two case studies of presidential and media framing - the weeks surrounding the formal announcements of Obama's December 2009 "surge-then-exit" strategy from Afghanistan and the end of combat operations in Iraq in August 2010 - to explore the role of mass media in presenting presidential narratives of war and finds evidence of an interpretive disconnect between the media and a president seeking to present a more nuanced approach to keeping America safe |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (226 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781409429654 1409429652 1317086449 9781317086444 1317086430 9781317086437 |