“We must not forget that God created us equal”: Putin and american exceptionalism
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Thomas McCloskey [1]
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[1] University of Maryland, College Park
University of Maryland, College Park
Estados Unidos
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- Localización: Southern communication journal, ISSN 1041-794X, Vol. 84, nº 1, 2019, págs. 44-56
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
American leaders have long tried to define their nation’s identity through efforts to defend human rights around the world, and in terms of the moral authority their people earn by doing so. President Putin’s Nobel Peace Prize nomination and his direct indictment of the notion of American exceptionalism in an open letter to the New York Times thus reflect efforts to rhetorically undermine a core aspect of American identity. This essay explores how President Putin’s New York Times editorial and his Nobel Peace Prize nomination rhetorically challenge American exceptionalism. President Putin persuasively contests President Obama’s version of American exceptionalism through a discourse of internationalism, offering implications for American political rhetoric and identity.
