The Peanut Farmer

Oxford University Press eBooks · 2024

• Sociology
• Literature
• Art

Abstract This chapter scrutinizes the Inaugural Address of Jimmy Carter, which is hardly considered a masterpiece of the genre. The speech earned dutiful applause and respectful coverage at the time, but it has seldom garnered favorable comments from historians and biographers. It mentions historian Randall Balmer, who described Carter’s speech as a workmanlike mélange of well-worn themes from the campaign. The chapter explains the speech’s tepidness, which owed much to the very modesty that had enabled Carter to win the White House and underlay his most memorable gestures on Inauguration Day. To have asked Carter for something grander would have meant asking him to be a different sort of leader and to have understood the national mood in a different way.

The Tricontinental Revolution

Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2022 · 33 citations

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Political Science

The Tricontinental Revolution provides a major reassessment of the global rise and impact of Tricontinentalism, the militant strand of Third World solidarity that defined the 1960s and 1970s as decades of rebellion. Cold War interventions highlighted the limits of decolonization, prompting a generation of global South radicals to adopt expansive visions of self-determination. Long associated with Cuba, this anti-imperial worldview stretched far beyond the Caribbean to unite international revolutions around programs of socialism, armed revolt, economic sovereignty, and confrontational diplomacy. Linking independent nations with non-state movements from North Vietnam through South Africa to New York City, Tricontinentalism encouraged marginalized groups to mount radical challenges to the United States and the inequitable Euro-centric international system. Through eleven expert essays, this volume recenters global political debates on the priorities and ideologies of the Global South, providing a new framework, chronology, and tentative vocabulary for understanding the evolution of anti-imperial and decolonial politics. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.