Book Summary: Losing The Words Of The Cold War

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Among all the different lines that Rodgers follows throughout the book, I would like to deepen the “Losing the words of the cold war” chapter regarding the presidential rhetoric, the one that I found most interesting. I think that the process of fragmentation that he is describing is clearly visible in the kind of vocabulary used by the different presidents of the United States. Rodgers has been able to show, through the examples of several presidential speeches, the changing of the general frame of mind of the last quarter of the century.
Firstly, the author underlines that, to make very long speeches has not always been the common practice. For instance, from Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States, until Woodrow Wilson

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