From Infamy to Evil: the development of presidential post-cataclysm rhetoric, Franklin Delano Roosevelt following Pearl Harbor and George Walker Bush (post-)9/11

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A study of the development of presidential post-cataclysm rhetoric and framing when relating the (post-)9/11 rhetoric of George W. Bush to the rhetoric of Franklin D. Roosevelt following Pearl Harbor. Various academic concepts, methods of framing and American myths are used to guide this study.

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Bush, GWB, George Walker Bush, Bush II, FDR, Franklin Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Presidential Rhetoric, Rhetoric, 9/11, 9/11 Rhetoric, Pearl Harbor, War Rhetoric, Comparing Pearl Harbor and 9/11, 9/11 and Pearl Harbor, Post-cataclysm, Framing, American Myths, American Mythology.

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