Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations : Establishing the Obama Presidency.

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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Main Author: Vaughn, Justin S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Texas A & M University Press, 2014.
Series:Presidential rhetoric and political communication ; no. twenty-four.
Subjects:
Obama, Barack.
Obama, Barack
2008-2017
Presidents > United States > Election > 2008.
Rhetoric > Political aspects > United States.
Political Science / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections.
Political Science / American Government / Executive Branch.
Politics and government
Presidents > Election
Rhetoric > Political aspects
United States > Politics and government > 2009-2017.
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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