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""Olson offers a powerful rhetorical analysis of American claims to greatness. In a context where such greatness is often taken as self-evident or manifest, this study of American magnitude as a matter of persuasion and hemispheric public feeling is vital and extremely welcome. --Naomi Greyser, author of On Sympathetic Grounds: Race, Gender, and Affective Geographies in Nineteenth-Century North America ""Olson's skillful dissection of how visual images inspire feelings of Americanness is a powerful insight into how national identity is grounded in assumptions of racial and cultural superiority, and speaks in important ways to this cultural moment."" --Lois Agnew, author of Outward, Visible Propriety: Stoic Philosophy and Eighteenth-Century British Rhetorics

Olson offers a powerful rhetorical analysis of American claims to greatness. In a context where such greatness is often taken as self-evident or manifest, this study of American magnitude as a matter of persuasion and hemispheric public feeling is vital and extremely welcome. --Naomi Greyser, author of On Sympathetic Grounds: Race, Gender, and Affective Geographies in Nineteenth-Century North America Olson's skillful dissection of how visual images inspire feelings of Americanness is a powerful insight into how national identity is grounded in assumptions of racial and cultural superiority, and speaks in important ways to this cultural moment. --Lois Agnew, author of Outward, Visible Propriety: Stoic Philosophy and Eighteenth-Century British Rhetorics

"""Olson offers a powerful rhetorical analysis of American claims to greatness. In a context where such greatness is often taken as self-evident or manifest, this study of American magnitude as a matter of persuasion and hemispheric public feeling is vital and extremely welcome. --Naomi Greyser, author of On Sympathetic Grounds: Race, Gender, and Affective Geographies in Nineteenth-Century North America ""Olson's skillful dissection of how visual images inspire feelings of Americanness is a powerful insight into how national identity is grounded in assumptions of racial and cultural superiority, and speaks in important ways to this cultural moment."" --Lois Agnew, author of Outward, Visible Propriety: Stoic Philosophy and Eighteenth-Century British Rhetorics"

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Christa J. Olson is Professor of Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Constitutive Visions: Indigeneity and Commonplaces of National Identity in Republican Ecuador.

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