Isolate and Discuss the Rhetorical Devices That Appear in the Following

Isolate and discuss the rhetorical devices that appear in the following passage:
"... despite the idealist yearnings in the body politic that this [the baby boom] generation supposedly epitomizes, the darker side of the lust for power is still present. Just witness the saga of the collapse of the once-promising career of Mayor Roger Hedgecock [former mayor of San Diego]."
-Larry Remer and Gregory Dennis