Making of Barack Obama, The
The Politics of Persuasion
Published on 1. October 2013
244 pages
978-1-60235-469-2 (ISBN)
Description
The Making of Barack Obama: The Politics of Persuasion provides the first comprehensive treatment of why Obama's rhetorical strategies were so effective during the 2008 presidential campaign, during the first four years of his presidency, and once again during the 2012 presidential campaign.
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Content
- Front cover
- Praise for The Making of Barack Obama
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Editors' Introduction
- Matthew Abraham and Erec Smith
- 1 The Rhetorical Constraints Limiting President Obama's Domestic Policy Advocacy
- Robert C. Rowland
- 2 "Yes, We Can!": Identification and the Invitation to Collective Identity in Barack Obama's Campaign Rhetoric
- Courtney Jue
- 3 Appointments and Disappointments: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Relationship Between President Obama, Catholics, and Their Church
- John Jasso and Anthony Wachs
- 4 Barack Obama, Islam, and the Discourses of American Racial Belonging
- Steven Salaita
- 5 The New Cultural Politics of Obama: Race, Politics and Unity in Obama's "A More Perfect Union"
- Erec Smith
- 6 Obama's West Point Address: The Symbolic Construction of Policy and Authority
- Michael Kleine
- 7 A Few Bad Apples: Barack Obama's Response to the Bush Administration Policy on Torture
- Richard Marback
- 8 The Specter of Nuestra América: Barack Obama, Latin America and the 2009 Summit of the Americas
- René Agustin De los Santos
- 9 Obama's Cairo Speech: Beyond the Rhetoric and Politics of "Good Muslim, Bad Muslim"
- Matthew Abraham
- 10 Reflections on The Making of Barack Obama
- David A. Frank
- Glossary
- Contributors
- Index
- Back cover
