The rhetoric of American exceptionalism critical essays /
"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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Jefferson, N.C. :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
2011.
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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.