{"id":35091,"date":"2013-12-18T19:57:25","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T19:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35091"},"modified":"2014-04-06T04:43:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T04:43:48","slug":"the-rhetoric-of-heroic-expectations-establishing-the-obama-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35091","title":{"rendered":"The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations: Establishing the Obama Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations: Establishing the Obama Presidency<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Texas A&M University Press<\/a>
\n2014-01-15
\n266 pages
\n6 x 9
\n7 b&w photos. 4 figs. 4 tables. Bib. Index.
\nUnjacketed Cloth ISBN: 978-1-62349-042-3
\nPaper ISBN: 978-1-62349-043-0<\/p>\n

Edited by:<\/p>\n

Justin S. Vaughn<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Political Science
\nBoise State University<\/em><\/p>\n

Jennifer R. Mercieca<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor
\nDepartment of Communication
\nTexas A&M University<\/em><\/p>\n

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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\u2019s<\/a> 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<\/em> grapples with these and other important questions.<\/p>\n

Barack Obama\u2019s election seemed to many to fulfill Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s<\/a> vision of the \u201clong arc of the moral universe . . . bending toward justice.\u201d And after the terrorism, war, and economic downturn of the previous decade, candidate Obama\u2019s 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\u2019s views of the incoming administration.\u00a0 The public\u2019s high expectations, in turn, become a part of any president\u2019s burden upon assuming office.<\/p>\n

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).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations: Establishing the Obama Presidency Texas A&M University Press 2014-01-15 266 pages 6 x 9 7 b&w photos. 4 figs. 4 tables. Bib. Index. Unjacketed Cloth ISBN: 978-1-62349-042-3 Paper ISBN: 978-1-62349-043-0 Edited by: Justin S. Vaughn, Assistant Professor of Political Science Boise State University Jennifer R. Mercieca, Associate Professor Department of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,63,11,8,26,20],"tags":[16581,16580,16578,16579,915],"class_list":["post-35091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthologies","category-barack-obama","category-books","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-jennifer-mercieca","tag-jennifer-r-mercieca","tag-justin-s-vaughn","tag-justin-vaughn","tag-texas-am-university-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}