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The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations. Establishing the Obama Presidency.
Vaughn, Justin S.; Mercieca, Jennifer R.
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Series: Presidential Rhetoric and Political Communication. Num Pages: 266 pages. BIC Classification: JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 612.
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 judge his performance by the scale of the expectations his rhetoric generated, or against some other standard? The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations: Establishing the Obama Presidency grapples with these and other important questions.
Barack Obama’s election seemed to many to fulfill Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of the “long arc of the ... Read more
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 judge his performance by the scale of the expectations his rhetoric generated, or against some other standard? The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations: Establishing the Obama Presidency grapples with these and other important questions.
Barack Obama’s election seemed to many to fulfill Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of the “long arc of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Texas A & M University Press United States
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
Series
Presidential Rhetoric and Political Communication
Number of Pages
266
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
College Station, United States
ISBN
9781623490423
SKU
V9781623490423
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About Vaughn, Justin S.; Mercieca, Jennifer R.
Justin S. Vaughn is an assistant professor of political science at Boise State University, USA. He is the coeditor of Women and the White House: Gender, Popular Culture, and Presidential Politics. Jennifer R. Mercieca is associate department head and associate professor in the department of communication at Texas A&M University, USA. She is the author of Founding Fictions. ... Read more
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