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...This chapter summarizes the main themes of the book and extends its findings to post-Cold War iterations of the global rhetorical presidency. Specifically, it considers how the presidential act of going global continues to shape US foreign policy in the twenty-first century and details how George W...

...This chapter introduces the major themes of the book and details how US presidents and other political leaders relied on myths of American exceptionalism, imperialism, colonialism, and global hegemony to articulate US foreign policy prior to the Cold War. This chapter also establishes...