The rhetoric of American exceptionalism
Subtitle: critical essays
By: edited by Jason A. Edwards and David Weiss
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780786459704
Subjects: Rhetoric; American National characteristics; Social aspects; Communication; Political aspects; Exceptionalism
Description: "This book of eleven critical essays explores the American exceptionalism as it is manifested across the American presidency, U.S. foreign policy, religion, economics, American history, television news, and mass-mediated sport. It demonstrates the importance of exceptionalism to the mythology, sense of place, direction, and identity of the United States, within and outside the realm of politics"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: American exceptionalism's champions and challengers / David Weiss and Jason A. Edwards; title: Champions of American exceptionalism. The rhetoric in the modern presidency: a quantitative assessment / Rico Neumann and Kevin Coe; title: Resolving rhetorical tensions / M. Karen Walker; title: One nation under God: Mormon theology and the American continent / Brett Lunceford; title: Re-contextualizing Americanism: The National Association of Manufacturers' Jeremiad for Free Enterprise during the Roosevelt era / Burton St. John, III; title: The redeem team saves USA basketball: an analysis of the U.S.-China 2008 Olympic games / Katherine L. Lavelle; title: Challengers to American exceptionalism. Mormonism and America as promised land in Joseph Smith's letter from Liberty Jail / David Charles Gore; title: Henry Cabot Lodge and the rhetorical trajectory / Michael J. Hostetler; title: Discursive characterization as embodiment and critique : the divergent rhetorical trajectories of Pat Tillman as an American hero / Arthur W. Herbig; title: The Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site: challenge to and reification of American exceptionalism / Lindsay R. Calhoun; title: Those who bear the heaviest burden: warfare and American exceptionalism in the age of entitlement / Christina M. Knopf; title: Promoting America: U.S. public diplomacy and the limits of exceptionalism / Craig Hayden.