Jennifer Mercieca, Ph.D., is a historian of American political rhetoric, an associate professor of communication at Texas A&M University, and author of Founding Fictions (2010) and The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations (2014). For more, visit jennifermercieca.com.

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