Perhaps no other presidential candidate or sitting president has attracted as much attention from rhetorical critics as Barack Obama. This book provides rhetorical critics an opportunity to revisit their published work on Obama in light of events that have occurred since its publication.

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Robert E. Terrill is Professor of Rhetoric in the Department of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. He received his PhD from Northwestern University in 1996. His work has been recognized by the Rose B. Johnson Award, the Kohrs-Campbell Prize, and the Marie Hochmuth-Nichols Award.

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Robert E. Terrill: Introduction - Peter Simonson: Rhetorical Charges: Mercurian Figures and Democratic Hope after Obama - David A. Frank/Mark Lawrence McPhail: A Wrestling of Brothers: (Re)Writing Obama Separately and Together (Again) - Amy L. Heyse/Ebony A. Utley: Barack Obama's Neo-Racial Responses to Black Death - Robert C. Rowland: Obama's Rhetoric of Myth and Reason - Robert L. Ivie/Oscar Giner: Barack Obama at the Threshold of a New America - Richard W. Leeman: The Once and Future Teleological Discourse of Barack Obama - Martin J. Medhurst: Testing the Narrative Signature Perspective: The Case of Obama and Health Care Reform - Derek R. Sweet/Margret McCue-Enser: Losing Patience with an Imperfect President and Imperfect People - Kristen Hoerl: How Selective Amnesia Brought Us the First Black Socialist President of the United States - Jennifer R. Mercieca: A Reflection on the Obama Phenomenon, Our Heroic Expectations, and the Obama Presidency - Contributors - Selected Bibliography - Index.