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Direct linkO'Gorman, Ned – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2008
This essay presents Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidential rhetoric as an iteration of an American synecdochal sublime. Eisenhower's rhetoric sought to re-aim civic sight beyond corporeal objects to the nation's transcendental essence. This rhetoric is intimately connected to prevailing political anxieties and exigencies, especially the problem of…
Descriptors: United States History, Weapons, Rhetoric, War
