Presidential Rhetoric on Terrorism under Bush, Obama and Trump : Inflating and Calibrating the Threat After 9/11 /
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Chapter 1: Inflating the Terror Threat Since 2001
- Why Study Rhetoric?
- Policy Selling and Agenda-Setting: The Power of Presidential Rhetoric
- Policy Selling
- Presidential Power and Weakness: The Need for Rhetoric
- Congressional Partisanship
- Presidential Popularity
- The Role of the Media
- Contending with George Edwards' On Deaf Ears
- Going Public: How Rhetoric Succeeds and Fails
- Terrorism and Going Public
- Credibility Gaps: Where Rhetoric Fails
- Methodology
- A Note on Definition
- Plan of the Book
- Chapter 2: George W. Bush: Policy Selling and Agenda-Setting After 9/11
- Chapter 3: Barack Obama: From an End to Terror to Drone Wars and ISIS
- Chapter 4: Donald Trump, Twitter, and Islamophobia: The End of Dignity in Presidential Rhetoric About Terrorism
- Chapter 5: How Can Presidents Properly Calibrate the Terror Threat?
- Chapter 2: George W. Bush: Policy Selling and Agenda-Setting After 9/11
- A Brief History of Presidential Terrorism Rhetoric
- George W. Bush's Rhetoric Post 9/11: Emotion and Conflict
- Bush, Terrorism, and Evil
- Policy Selling: From 9/11 to War with Iraq to "Human Rights"
- Conclusions
- Chapter 3: Barack Obama: From an End to Terror to Drone Wars and ISIS
- "No Drama" Obama: A Distinct Change in Terrorism Themes
- Obama: From Anti-War Purism to Pragmatism
- Obama and the Rhetoric of Fear
- Obama, Drones, and Credibility
- President Obama and Credibility Gaps: Benghazi, Syria, and ISIS
- Conclusion: Obama as Bush Lite?
- Chapter 4: Donald Trump, Twitter, and Islamophobia: The End of Dignity in Presidential Rhetoric About Terrorism
- Trump and the End of Dignity
- Trump and Going Public: A Tweetstorm Against Muslims and Immigrants
- How Trump Employs Presidential Rhetoric: Islamophobia and Demagoguery
- Islamophobic Actions
- Rhetoric in Context: Comparing Trump to Obama and Bush
- Conclusion: A More Overtly Prejudiced War on Terror
- Chapter 5: How Can Presidents Properly Calibrate the Terror Threat?
- Index