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HERNANDEZ PLA, Susana. The “Four Freedoms Speech” ‒ A Reference for Understanding the Notion of Progress in Franklin D. Roosevelt's Rhetoric. UH [online]. 2021, n.292  Epub 05-Jun-2021. ISSN 0253-9276.

The “Four Freedoms Speech” was delivered by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941. It is usually remembered for outlining four fundamental freedoms - freedom of belief, freedom of speech and freedom from want and fear - but if studied closely it can be seen that it showed a shift in the president's rhetoric for the purpose of seeking consensus for U.S. entry into the war and expanding his notion of social welfare. This allows us to trace a discursive line in Roosevelt, which began in 1935 and closed in 1944, with the “Second Bill of Rights”. The study of the “Four Freedoms Speech” not only allows an understanding of Roosevelt's narrative around the use of the notion of progress to produce and reproduce consensus, but also his political testament.

Palabras clave : social welfare; political discourse; United States; history; freedom; liberty.

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