Hillary Clinton in the News: Gender and Authenticity in American Politics

Acknowledgments

acknowledgments ibegan collecting television news broadcasts of Hillary Clinton in 1996. I am indebted to many people who contributed to the project over the past seventeenyears .Ireceivedfaculty-supportawardsfrombothMonmouthCollegeand theUniversityofMaryland,includingGRBandRASAgrantawardsandcourse releases from UM’s Graduate School. I am grateful to three department chairs who offered support for these grant applications, including William Wallace, Edward Fink, and Elizabeth Toth. I also am beholden to the archivists with the following libraries and historical societies who offered support in completing the historical work for this project: American Antiquarian Society, Filson Historical Society, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, Houghton Library of Harvard College Library, Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, Library of Congress, Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library, Massachusetts Historical Society, National First Ladies Library, and especially Vanderbilt Television News Archive. IalsowanttoextendmyappreciationtothestaffoftheUniversityofIllinois Press for providing a smooth publication process of utmost professionalism. I owe particular gratitude to acquisitions editor Daniel Nasset for his strong support of this project. In addition, I want to express appreciation to Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign staff for giving me access to the Clinton press bus during the New Hampshire primary. I also want to thank POTUS XM for providing press x • Acknowledgments credentials that made traveling on Clinton’s press bus possible. Such access afforded me the opportunity to take the photograph that appears on the front coverofthisbook.AndIwanttoexpressspecialappreciationtoKathyKendall forlettingmetagalongwithherasshenavigatedtheNewHampshireprimaries. I also received research support from several students, including Vonetta B. Martin, Kate McFarland, Naomi Mersky, Aryan Rodriquez, Kate Shaw, and Rachel Smith. I am particularly indebted to five UM Ph.D. students—Megan Fitzmaurice, Katie Kuhn, Jessica Lu, Jade Olson, and Yvonne Slosarski—for theircloseeditingworkoncethemanuscriptwascompleted.MeganandKatie alsotookontheherculeantaskofcreatingamostimpressiveindex.Ialsoowea debtofgratitudetoSheilaBodellforbringingtheindextocompletion.Itooam most appreciative of Maria E. denBoer’s very close reading of the manuscript in the final stages of editing. Inaddition,Iwanttoexpressgratitudetoformerandexistinggraduatestudents who helped me conceptualize the project in important ways through conversationsabouttheirresearchinmediastudies ,feminism,visuality,nationalism,race studies,andrhetoricandpublicaddress:TimBarney,JasonBlack,DianeBlair,Lisa Burns,LisaCorrigan,AbbeDepretis,TerriDonofrio,MeganFitzmaurice,Elizabeth Gardner,LisaGring-Pemble,KimHannah,LaurenHarris,LindsayHayes,Diane Hemmings,AmyHeyse,JamesKimble,KatieKuhn,NaYoungLee,TiffanyLewis, Jessica Lu, Jade Olson, Alyssa Samek, L. Ayu Saraswati, Artesha Taylor Sharma, YvonneSlosarski,BelindaStillionSouthard,StephenUnderhill,andRicWinston. The project has also been shaped by the important feedback I received from numerousindividualsthroughjournalandbookchapterreviews,paneldiscussions , colloquium and convention presentations, and co-authorship opportunities . I wish to acknowledge their important contributions to the project: KarrinAnderson,DianeBlair,CarlBurgchardt,KarlynKohrsCampbell,Diana Carlin, James Chesebro, Paul Chilton, Celeste Condit, Stacy Cordery, James Curran,BonnieDow,CaraFinnegan,RodHart,DianeHope,DavidKaufer,Sahar Khamis, Beata Beigman Klebanov, Michal Krzyzanowski, Ron Lee, Martin Medhurst, Kathryn Olson, Lester Olson, Bartholomew Sparrow, Molly Meijer Wertheimer,andRuthWodak.Inparticular,Iammostappreciativeofthesage guidance and vision of Vanessa Beasley and Mary Varvus in helping me revise and strengthen the project in immeasurable ways. I also am indebted to many colleagues, former professors, and friends from theUniversityofNewMexico,IndianaUniversity,MonmouthCollege,theUniversityofMaryland ,andelsewherewhohavehelpedshapemyscholarlythinkingformorethantwodecades :LindaAldoory,JamesAndrews,NateAtkinson, Vanessa Beasley, Thomas Benson, Bonnie Thornton Dill, James Darsey, Leroy Dorsey, Robert Gaines, Michael Gurevitch, Farhat Haq, Lisa Hogan, Mike Ho- Acknowledgments • xi gan,SusanHolmes,SueHuseman,DickJensen,DavidKaufer,KathleenKendall, Seung-Kyung Kim, James Klumpp, Brooke Liu, John Lucaites, Kristy Maddux, Martin Medhurst, Cheryl Meeker, Claire Moses, Trevor Parry-Giles, Deborah Rosenfelt,JodyRoy,DavidSawyer,JanSchuetz,ShawnSpano,MariBoorTonn, Elizabeth Toth, Glen Williams, Andrew Wolvin, and David Zarefsky. I particularlywishtoexpressgratitudetoJamesAndrews ,VanessaBeasley,MikeHogan, Dick Jensen, David Kaufer, and Mary Vavrus for being model teacher-scholars andfriends—demonstratingastrongcommitmenttothestudyofrhetoric(and media) while maintaining their sense of humor, humility, and humanity. Thisbookisdedicatedtothewomenmembersofmyfamilywhohaveserved as exceptional role models in my life and those who represent the next generation of strong women to carry on the family tradition. I am always mindful of the challenges they accepted and the obstacles they endured, instilling in their grandchildren,children,andniecesandnephewsastrongworkethicandmoral foundation and a dogged determination to persevere in the face of hardship. The men in my life also deserve considerable gratitude. I could not have strongercharacterexemplarsthanmyfatherandmybrother.Mytwosons—Sam andEli—havebroughtmorejoytomylifethanIevercouldimagine.AndTrevor has lived through the entire project, from conception to completion, showing support,patience,andsageadvicethroughout.Iammindfulandforeverthankful for having such strong family support. * * * Certain themes in this book (chapter 1 and chapter 3) are reflected in “The ‘ImageBite,’PoliticalLanguage,andthePublic/PrivateDivide:NBCNewsCoverageofHillaryClintonFromScornedWifetoSenateCandidate ,”co-authored by David S. Kaufer, Shawn J. Parry-Giles, and Beata Beigman Klebanov and publishedintheJournalofLanguageandPolitics11(2012):336–56withkindpermission by John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, www.benjamins.com. Portions of the introduction originally appeared in “John F. Kerry: Speech before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations” (1971), authored by Shawn J...