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Words like loaded pistols : rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama / Sam Leith.
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…., Daydream believer -- Judicial rhetoric -- Champions of rhetoric VI: Barack Obama, the audacity of trope -- Epideictic rhetoric -- Champions of rhetoric VII: the unknown speechwriter -- Thus it can be shown...…”
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Abraham Lincoln revealed : Abraham Lincoln revealed / Public Affairs Television (Firm)
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Harriet Beecher Stowe on Lincoln (3:59) -- Abe Lincoln Wins Presidential Election (3:11) -- Nathaniel Hawthorne on Abraham Lincoln (2:26) -- Negative Press on Abe Lincoln (3:02) -- Historical Stature of Abe Lincoln (3:10) -- Poets Mourn Abe Lincoln (3:04) -- Frederick Douglas on Abe Lincoln (2:23) -- Poetry About Lincoln (2:56) -- Carl Sandburg on Abraham Lincoln (4:29) -- F.D.R. and Abe Lincoln (3:58) -- New Image of Lincoln in Literature (3:43) -- Barack Obama on Abraham Lincoln (3:32) -- Actor Researches Abe Lincoln (2:56) -- Abe Lincoln's Personal Writings (4:28) -- Abe Lincoln: Poet and Persuader (2:55)…”
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The presidential leadership dilemma : between the Constitution and a political party / Julia R. Azari, Lara M. Brown, and Zim G. Nwokora, editors.
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama -- Playing for history: the reelection leadership choices of presidents -- William J. …”
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Sunday morning. Journal : the GOP / producers, Steve Glauber, Brian M. Healy.
Published 2009Streaming video (Emerson users only)
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Black Hollywood : from butlers to superheroes, the changing role of African American men in the movies / Kimberly Fain.
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Griffith -- 1930s: the Hays Moral Code and Jim Crow-The emperor Jones and Gone with the wind -- 1940s: Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and Lincoln "Stepin Fetchit" Perry: black servants in musicals and comedies -- 1950s: McCarthyism and blacklisting: Canada Lee and Paul Robeson -- Black images from the apex of the civil rights era peak into the age of Barack Obama -- 1960s: token black actors in the civil rights age: Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte -- 1970s: blaxploitation: preachers, pimps, pushers, and players -- 1980s: black comedians rule: in the age of Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor -- 1990s: gangsta rappers transcend music: Ice Cube, Ice-T, DMX, Nas, and 2pac -- 2000s: black icons: control, agency, and self-appropriation: Spike Lee, Tyler Perry and Will Smith -- 2010s: black power Hollywood: Django unchained and Twelve years as a slave in the age of Obama's hope and change -- Conclusion.…”
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Literature and Culture of the Chicago Renaissance
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…Frank Marshall Davis of Chicago and the Young Barack Obama of Hawaii -- Notes -- References -- 9. Landscapes of the Imagination: Clarence Major, Leon Forrest, and the Black Chicago Renaissance -- Notes -- References -- 10. …”
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Movies in the Age of Obama : the Era of Post-Racial and Neo-Racist Cinema.
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…." -- If Django and Lincoln Could Talk: James Baldwin Goes to the Movies -- The Exceptional N*gger: Redefining African American Identity in Django Unchained -- Blaxploitation in the Age of Obama: Black Dynamite, Django Unchained, Racial Reasoning, and Racial Capitalism -- Between The Butler and Black Dynamite : Servility, Militancy, and the Meaning of Blaxploitation -- Rednecks, Racism, and Religion: King and Darabont's Precarious Prophecy of Obama's Coming -- The Present Is an Eternal Now Connecting Past and Future -- "I Am Trayvon Martin": Obama and the Black Male in Cinema -- Invictus : South Africa as a Post-racial Fantasy in the Age of Obama -- "Mama, I Think I Broke Something": Thinking about the Environment in Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild -- It's Not a Wonderful Life: The Financial Crisis on Film and the Limits of Hollywood Liberalism -- Reimagining Barack Obama as Jay Gatsby in Baz Luhrmann's Film Adaptation of The Great Gatsby -- The Present Imagines the Future -- The Hunger Games, Race, and Social Class in Obama's America -- Rise of the Planet of the People: Contradictions and Revolution in Rise of the Planet of the Apes -- 2013 Academy Award for Best Picture: 12 Years a Slave -- "Under the Floorboards of This Nation": Trauma, Representation, and the Stain of History in 12 Years a Slave -- 162 Years after 12 Years a Slave : A Viewing through Double-Consciousness -- Revoking the Privilege of Forgetting: White Supremacy Interrogated in 12 Years a Slave.…”
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American history : a very short introduction / Paul S. Boyer.
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Weekly address : tragedy at Fort Hood / by the White House.
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Your weekly address, Saturday, February 07, 2009 / by the White House.
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Your weekly address, Saturday, April 25, 2009 / by the White House.
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60 minutes. President Obama [2009]. Part two / produced by L. Franklin Devine, Michael Radutzky.
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This World. Obama : What happened to hope?.
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President Obama delivers a statement on Libya / by the White House.
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Sunday morning. Healthy debate / producer, Amiel Weisfogel, Andy Merlis.
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60 minutes. The road to the White House. Part three / [produced by CBS News Productions].
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