The Oratory of Barack Obama

Lehrman, Robert and Crines, Andrew S ORCID: 0000-0002-6878-5030 (2016) The Oratory of Barack Obama. In: Democratic Orators from JFK to Barack Obama. Rhetoric, Politics, and Society, Part F . Palgrave Macmillan UK,Basingstoke, pp. 261-282. ISBN 9781349558186

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Abstract

A few days before the 2004 Democratic Convention opened, speech-writer and Democratic consultant Bob Shrum visited the mostly unknown keynote speaker for that convention’s second night. The speaker’s draft impressed Shrum who had been working on the acceptance speech for nominee John Kerry. ‘Here was a politician who could write’, he wrote later (Shrum, 2007: 461). There was a problem, though. Both the speaker and Kerry had one line which read exactly the same: ‘I see an America — red, white, and blue.’ Would the speaker, Shrum asked, let Kerry have it?

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Rhetorical Strategy, Democratic Convention
Divisions:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Histories, Languages and Cultures
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	05 Jul 2023 08:28
Last Modified:	25 Jul 2023 02:35
DOI:	10.1057/9781137509031_13
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3171424