Barack Obama and the rhetoric of heroic expectations Chapter

abstract

• How we learned to think of the American president as America's hero and how that creates institutional, contextual, and personal burdens on the presidency. We examine how Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign relied upon creating unrealistic heroic expectations.

authors

• Mercieca, Jennifer

author list (cited authors)

• Mercieca, J. R., & Vaughn, J. S.

complete list of authors

• Mercieca, JR||Vaughn, JS

Book Title

• The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations: Establishing the Obama Presidency

publication date

• January 2014

publisher

• Texas A&M University Press  Publisher

keywords

• Post-rhetorical Presidency
• Presidency
• Presidential Burdens
• Presidential Greatness
• Presidential Rhetoric
• Rhetorical Presidency

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

• 9781623490423

URI

• https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/200913

start page

• 2

end page

• 29