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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| 505 | 0 | |a 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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