Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Approaches to the Obama Presidency

Chirindo, Kundai

doi:10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.3.0491

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Book Review| September 01 2016

Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Approaches to the Obama Presidency

Obama’s Political Saga: From Battling History, Racialized Rhetoric, and GOP Obstructionism to Re-Election. By Mary L. Rucker. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013; pp. xix + 173. $70.00 hardback; $39.99 paper.

Out of Many, One: Obama and the Third American Political Tradition. By Ruth O’Brien. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2013; pp. xii + 432. $75.00 cloth; $25.00 paper.

The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations: Establishing the Obama Presidency. Edited by Justin S. Vaughn, Jennifer R. Mercieca. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2014; pp. viii + 287. $50.00 cloth; $24.95 paper.

Kundai Chirindo

Kundai Chirindo is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Media Studies at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. The author is indebted to Jason Barrett-Fox, G. Mitchell Reyes, and Robert Topinka for their comments on previous drafts of this essay.

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Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2016) 19 (3): 491–504.

https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.3.0491

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