Obama, the Media, and Framing the U.S. Exit from Iraq and Afghanistan by King, Erika G.

Obama, the Media, and Framing the U.S. Exit from Iraq and Afghanistan (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781409429647)

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Obama, the Media, and Framing the U.S. Exit from Iraq and Afghanistan by King, Erika G.

Obama, the Media, and Framing the U.S. Exit from Iraq and Afghanistan

$210.00
Obama, the Media, and Framing the U.S. Exit from Iraq and Afghanistan by King, Erika G.

Obama, the Media, and Framing the U.S. Exit from Iraq and Afghanistan

$210.00
Format: Hardcover
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Situating Obama's end-of-war discourse in the historical context of the 2001 terrorist attacks, Obama, the Media, and Framing the U.S. Exit from Iraq and Afghanistan begins with a detailed comparison with the Bush war-on-terror security narrative before examining elements of continuity and change in post-9/11 elite rhetoric. Erika King deftly employs two case studies of presidential and media framing - the weeks surrounding the formal announcements of Obama's December 2009 'surge-then-exit' strategy from Afghanistan and the end of combat operations in Iraq in August 2010 - to explore the role of mass media in presenting presidential narratives of war and finds evidence of an interpretive disconnect between the media and a president seeking to present a more nuanced approach to keeping America safe. Eloquently scrutinizing Obama's discourse on the U.S. exit from two post-9/11 wars and contrasting the presidential endgame frame with the U.S. mainstream media's narratives of the wars' meaning, accomplishments, and denouement provides a unique combination of qualitative content analysis and topical case studies and makes this volume an ideal resource for scholars and researchers grappling with the complicated and ever-evolving nexus of war, the president, and the media.

Author: Erika G. King
ISBN-10: 1409429644
ISBN-13: 9781409429647
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 01/06/2014
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d

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Choice 10/01/2014 pg. 347
By Erika G. King
By Erika G. King
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Erika G. King is Professor of Political Science at Grand Valley State University. She previously also served as Chair of Political Science and Dean of Social Sciences at GVSU. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University, and has published in the field of political communication and political psychology.

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