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After examining Harry S. Truman's plain style to determine its role in literalizing the Cold War image of Soviet savagery, this essay concludes that Truman's blunt and straightforward manner of addressing the nation reinforced the connotations of a decivilizing metaphor and, thus, enhanced its capacity for constructing political reality.
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