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"Our Mission and Our Moment": George W. Bush and September 11th
- Rhetoric & Public Affairs
- Michigan State University Press
- Volume 6, Number 4, Winter 2003
- pp. 607-632
- 10.1353/rap.2004.0013
- Article
- Additional Information
This essay explores the ways in which President George W. Bush explained the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Through his choice of genre, use of visual imagery, and creation of an American people, Bush crafted the authority to dominate public interpretation of those events and the appropriate response to them.