The making of Barack Obama : the politics of persuasion /

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Imprint:Anderson, South Carolina : Parlor Press, [2013]
Description:vii, 234 pages ; 23 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9918190
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Other authors / contributors:Abraham, Matthew, 1972- editor of compilation.
ISBN:9781602354678 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1602354677 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781602354685 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1602354685 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781602354692 (adobe ebook)
9781602354708 (epub)
9781602354715 (kindle)
9781602354722 (ibook)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • The rhetorical constraints limiting President Obama's domestic policy advocacy / Robert C. Rowland
  • "Yes, we can!": Identification and the invitation to collective identity in Barack Obama's campaign rhetoric / Courtney Jue
  • Appointments and disappointments: a rhetorical analysis of the relationship between President Obama, Catholics, and their church / John Jasso and Anthony Wachs
  • Barack Obama, Islam, and the discourses of American racial belonging / Steven Salaita
  • The new cultural politics of Obama: race, politics and unity in Obama's "a more perfect union" / Erec Smith
  • Obama's West Point address: the symbolic construction of policy and authority / Michael Kleine
  • A few bad apples: Barack Obama's response to the Bush administration policy on torture / Richard Marback
  • The specter of nuestra América: Barack Obama, Latin America and the 2009 summit of the Americas / René Agustin de los Santos
  • Obama's Cairo speech: beyond the rhetoric and politics of "good Muslim, bad Muslim" / Matthew Abraham
  • Reflections on the making of Barack Obama / David A. Frank.