“Exceptional Me is academic research at its best-rigorous, relevant, readable. Gilmore and Rowling's expansive and detailed analysis demonstrates just how uncommon Donald Trump's discourse about American exceptionalism has been. These pages lay bare what a Narcissist-in-Chief sounds like and how inconsistent with the American presidency that sound is.”

Kevin Coe, co-author of The Ubiquitous Presidency and The God Strategy

Exceptional Me is an outstanding addition to the literature on American Exceptionalism. Gilmore and Rowling's research is provocative and insightful. If you want to understand the presidency of Donald Trump and how he modified American Exceptionalism for our current era then this book is a must-read.

Jason A. Edwards, Bridgewater State University, co-editor of The Rhetoric of American Exceptionalism

I would encourage all readers interested in presidential rhetoric to engage with this text, as well as those experts on American exceptionalism who seek a comprehensive analysis of Trump's engagement with a discourse he once posited that he “never liked.”

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