03804nam 2200577 450 991082316770332120230803195355.01-4619-5827-X1-62349-121-5(CKB)2670000000530772(EBL)1637621(MiAaPQ)EBC1637621(OCoLC)871190051(MdBmJHUP)muse33570(Au-PeEL)EBL1637621(CaPaEBR)ebr10842706(CaONFJC)MIL577386(EXLCZ)99267000000053077220140312h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe rhetoric of heroic expectations establishing the Obama presidency /edited by Justin S. Vaughn and Jennifer R. Mercieca1st ed.College Station, Texas :Texas A&M University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (306 p.)Presidential rhetoric and political communication ;Number twenty-fourIncludes index.1-62349-043-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 MarPresidential rhetoric and political communication ;no. 24.PresidentsUnited StatesElection2008RhetoricPolitical aspectsUnited StatesUnited StatesPolitics and government2009-PresidentsElectionRhetoricPolitical aspects973.932092Vaughn Justin S.1978-1672307Mercieca Jennifer R1672308MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823167703321The rhetoric of heroic expectations4035544UNINA