The rhetoric of heroic expectations
Subtitle: establishing the Obama presidency
By: edited by Justin S. Vaughn and Jennifer R. Mercieca
Edition: 1st edition
Series: Presidential rhetoric and political communication -- no. 24; Presidential rhetoric and political communication -- no. 24.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781623490423; 9781623490430; 9781623491215
Subjects: Politics and government; Presidents; Election; Rhetoric
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Barack Obama and the rhetoric of heroic expectations / Jennifer R. Mercieca and Justin S. Vaughn; title: A lighthouse at the crossroads: Barack Obama's call for agonistic democracy / Jay P. Childers; title: The "we" in "yes, we can": Obama's audience, the audience's Obama, and consubstantiality / Eric Dieter; title: Overcoming institutional burdens: President Obama's rhetorical leadership in his first year / Brandon Rottinghaus; title: Where's the media? President Obama, the public, and news coverage / Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha; title: The United States and the world: the rhetorical dimension of Obama's foreign policy / David Zarefsky; title: Resetting America's role in the world: President Obama's rhetoric of (re)conciliation and partnership / Jason A. Edwards; title: Obama's two bodies: a study in American economic theology / James Arnt Aune; title: The secular messianic style in Barack Obama's "call to renewal" speech / Catherine L. Langford; title: The exodus as burden: Obama, agency, and the containment thesis / Dave Tell; title: Picturing the presidents: Obama and the visual politics of White House art / Cara Finnegan; title: Michelle Obama, "mom-in-chief": gender, race, and familialism in media representations of the First Lady / Bonnie J. Dow; title: Epilogue: Carrying the burden: how Barack Obama both embraced and diminished heroic expectations / Jennifer R. Mercieca and Justin S. Vaughn.