Cracked but Not Shattered Hillary Rodham Clinton's Unsuccessful Campaign for the Presidency

by Sheckels, Theodore F.; Banwart, Mary C.; Bell, Lauren C.; Carlin, Diana B.; Conners, Joan L.; Davis, Corey; Delbert, Jeffrey; McKinney, Mitchell S.; Muir, Janette Kenner; Schnoebelen, James M.; Spiker, Julia A.; Stein, Karen; Taylor, Anita M.; Torrens, Ka

• ISBN13: 9780739137291
• ISBN10: 0739137298
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-08-20
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Cracked But Not Shattered: Hillary Clinton's Unsuccessful Campaign for the Presidency thoroughly analyzes Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2008 campaign for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination with an eye to identifying what went wrong-why, despite initially being the frontrunner, she failed to break "the glass ceiling." The volume's contributors attempt to answer this question by examining multiple issues, from usual campaign communication topics such as Clinton's rhetoric, debate performance, and advertising to the ways the media treated her. While acknowledging that her communication during the campaign was flawed and that the media coverage of her reflected biases, these essays demonstrate that Clinton's campaign was in trouble from the start because of her gender, status as a former First Lady, and the fact that she is half of a powerful political couple. Cracked But Not Shattered provides keen insight into the historic 2008 Democratic primaries that will particularly intrigue scholars and students of political communications. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Theodore F. Sheckels is A. G. Ingram Professor of English at Randolph-Macon College.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. vii
List of Figures	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Contexts
Alternative Approaches to Delegate Selection and Their Effects on the 2008 Democratic Primary Election Results	p. 9
Public Woman, Private Wife: Hillary Clinton Could Not Have Won	p. 29
Hillary, You Can't Go Home Again: The Entrapment of the First Lady Role	p. 45
The Clinton Political Team: Marriage, Gender, and the Presidential Quest	p. 69
Communication
It takes a Village to Win: A Rhetorical Analysis of "Hillary for President"	p. 99
The first-and last-Woman Standing: Hillary Rodham Clinton's Presidential Primary Debate Performance	p. 125
"It's 3 a.m.": Strategic Communication in Hillary Clinton's 2008 Presidential Primary Televised Announcements	p. 149
Media
The Cleavage Commotion: How the Press Covered Senator Clinton's Campaign	p. 173
She's Not Laughing: Political Humor and Hillary Clinton's Campaign for President	p. 189
A Democrat Suffers Media Bias: Hillary's Fight against Pro-Obama Coverage	p. 203
Afterword	p. 211
Index	p. 217
List of Contributors	p. 225
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