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"This book of eleven critical essays explores the American exceptionalism as it is manifested across the American presidency, U.S. foreign policy, religion, economics, American history, television news, and mass-mediated sport. It demonstrates the importance of exceptionalism to the mythology,...

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Edwards, Jason A., 1973-, Weiss, David
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2011.
Subjects:
National characteristics, American > Political aspects.
National characteristics, American > Social aspects.
Exceptionalism > United States.
Rhetoric > Political aspects > United States.
Rhetoric > Social aspects > United States.
Communication > Political aspects > United States.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: American exceptionalism's champions and challengers / David Weiss and Jason A. Edwards
  • Champions of American exceptionalism. The rhetoric in the modern presidency: a quantitative assessment / Rico Neumann and Kevin Coe
  • Resolving rhetorical tensions / M. Karen Walker
  • One nation under God: Mormon theology and the American continent / Brett Lunceford
  • Re-contextualizing Americanism: The National Association of Manufacturers' Jeremiad for Free Enterprise during the Roosevelt era / Burton St. John, III
  • The redeem team saves USA basketball: an analysis of the U.S.-China 2008 Olympic games / Katherine L. Lavelle
  • Challengers to American exceptionalism. Mormonism and America as promised land in Joseph Smith's letter from Liberty Jail / David Charles Gore
  • Henry Cabot Lodge and the rhetorical trajectory / Michael J. Hostetler
  • Discursive characterization as embodiment and critique : the divergent rhetorical trajectories of Pat Tillman as an American hero / Arthur W. Herbig
  • The Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site: challenge to and reification of American exceptionalism / Lindsay R. Calhoun
  • Those who bear the heaviest burden: warfare and American exceptionalism in the age of entitlement / Christina M. Knopf
  • Promoting America: U.S. public diplomacy and the limits of exceptionalism / Craig Hayden.

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