Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: 1. IntroductionBarack Obama’s election to the presidency in 2008 was greeted in most of Europe with joy, or at least relief, an emotion that was shared in a great many precincts in the United States. In both venues a curious mix of language attended these celebrations. A new day had dawned, it was said; the American people had turned a page to give themselves, and the rest of the world, a fresh start. Paradoxically, that meant that the USA would return to being its old, familiar self—a count...
DOI: 10.4000/ejas.8479
Author: James D. Bratt
Institutions: Calvin University, Roosevelt Institute for American Studies
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2083801653