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The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations : Establishing the Obama Presidency /
Campaign rhetoric helps candidates to get elected, but its effects last well beyond the counting of the ballots; this was perhaps never truer than in Barack Obama's 2008 campaign. Did Obama create such high expectations that they actually hindered his ability to enact his agenda? Should we judg...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
[2014]
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Barack Obama and the rhetoric of heroic expectations / Jennifer R. Mercieca and Justin S. Vaughn
- A lighthouse at the crossroads: Barack Obama's call for agonistic democracy / Jay P. Childers
- The "we" in "yes, we can": Obama's audience, the audience's Obama, and consubstantiality / Eric Dieter
- Overcoming institutional burdens: President Obama's rhetorical leadership in his first year / Brandon Rottinghaus
- Where's the media? President Obama, the public, and news coverage / Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha
- The United States and the world: the rhetorical dimension of Obama's foreign policy / David Zarefsky
- Resetting America's role in the world: President Obama's rhetoric of (re)conciliation and partnership / Jason A. Edwards
- Obama's two bodies: a study in American economic theology / James Arnt Aune
- The secular messianic style in Barack Obama's "call to renewal" speech / Catherine L. Langford
- The exodus as burden: Obama, agency, and the containment thesis / Dave Tell
- Picturing the presidents: Obama and the visual politics of White House art / Cara Finnegan
- Michelle Obama, "mom-in-chief": gender, race, and familialism in media representations of the First Lady / Bonnie J. Dow
- Epilogue: Carrying the burden: how Barack Obama both embraced and diminished heroic expectations / Jennifer R. Mercieca and Justin S. Vaughn.