Charles Thaxton is the Assistant Web Producer at JSTOR Daily and freelances elsewhere around the web. He grew up in Maine and graduated from Bates College.
The Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev famously pounded his shoe at a United Nations meeting in 1960. Anecdotes of erratic behavior like this are unsettling.
Apple's "Think Different" ad campaign cemented Gandhi as an "Inspirational Figure." But scholars argue that his influence on American activism is profound.
