- 244 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
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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Table of contents
- Front cover
- Praise for The Making of Barack Obama
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Editors’ Introduction
- 1 The Rhetorical Constraints Limiting President Obama’s Domestic Policy Advocacy
- 2 “Yes, We Can!”: Identification and the Invitation to Collective Identity in Barack Obama’s Campaign Rhetoric
- 3 Appointments and Disappointments: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Relationship Between President Obama, Catholics, and Their Church
- 4 Barack Obama, Islam, and the Discourses of American Racial Belonging
- 5 The New Cultural Politics of Obama: Race, Politics and Unity in Obama’s “A More Perfect Union”
- 6 Obama’s West Point Address: The Symbolic Construction of Policy and Authority
- 7 A Few Bad Apples: Barack Obama’s Response to the Bush Administration Policy on Torture
- 8 The Specter of Nuestra América: Barack Obama, Latin America and the 2009 Summit of the Americas
- 9 Obama’s Cairo Speech: Beyond the Rhetoric and Politics of “Good Muslim, Bad Muslim”
- 10 Reflections on The Making of Barack Obama
- Glossary
- Contributors
- Index
- Back cover