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The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations - Establishing the Obama Presidency (Hardcover)
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The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations - Establishing the Obama Presidency (Hardcover)
Series: Presidential Rhetoric and Political Communication
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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 moral universe . . .
bending toward justice." And after the terrorism, war, and economic
downturn of the previous decade, candidate Obama's rhetoric cast
broad visions of a change in the direction of American life. In
these and other ways, the election of 2008 presented an especially
strong example of creating expectations that would shape the
public's views of the incoming administration. The public's high
expectations, in turn, become a part of any president's burden upon
assuming office.
The interdisciplinary scholars who have contributed to this volume
focus their analysis upon three kinds of presidential burdens:
institutional burdens (specific to the office of the presidency);
contextual burdens (specific to the historical moment within which
the president assumes office); and personal burdens (specific to
the individual who becomes president).
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