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The rhetoric of heroic expectations

The rhetoric of heroic expectations establishing the Obama presidency / [electronic resource] : edited by Justin S. Vaughn and Jennifer R. Mercieca. - 1st ed. - College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (266 p.) - Presidential rhetoric and political communication ; no. 24 . - Presidential rhetoric and political communication ; no. 24. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9781623491215 1623491215


Obama, Barack.


Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States.
Presidents--Election--United States--2008.


United States--Politics and government--2009-


Electronic books.

E907 / .R47 2014

973.932092