Rhetorical Analysis Of Truman's Inaugural Speech

The age of development began when President Truman popularized the term ‘development’ and reframed it in relation to ‘underdevelopment.’ Western countries pushed the development agenda across the globe by paralleling it to Christianity and justifying it in the name of fighting communism, while non-Western countries furthered the development agenda by creating economic development plans and accepting financial aid for development. In Truman’s inaugural speech, the rhetoric he uses to convey the importance of Point Four paints developing countries as desperately in need of saving by the US. To prevent starvation and scarcity in underdeveloped countries, Truman urges that the US must offer salvation by promoting modernization. Truman tapped