At a time when so many radicals in the United States were saying and thinking “I hate this lousy country” and looking all over the world for models of revolution—China, Southeast Asia, Africa, Latin America, even tiny countries such as Albania that were nothing like the United States—Jimmy and I also set out to understand in a deeper manner what was exceptional about U.S. history and therefore what would distinguish the next American Revolution from revolutions in other times and other countries.
