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C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings

by C Wright Mills

ISBN13: 9780520211063
ISBN10: 0520211065
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One of the leading public intellectuals of twentieth-century America and a pioneering and brilliant social scientist, C. Wright Mills left a legacy of interdisciplinary and hard-hitting work including two books that changed the way many people viewed their lives and the structure of power in the United States: White Collar (1951) and The Power Elite (1956). Mills persistently challenged the status quo within his profession--as in The Sociological Imagination (1959)--and within his country, until his untimely death in 1962. This collection of letters and writings, edited by his daughters, allows readers to see behind Mills's public persona for the first time.

Mills's letters to prominent figures--including Saul Alinsky, Daniel Bell, Lewis Coser, Carlos Fuentes, Hans Gerth, Irving Howe, Dwight MacDonald, Robert K. Merton, Ralph Miliband, William Miller, David Riesman, and Harvey Swados--are joined by his letters to family members, letter-essays to an imaginary friend in Russia, personal narratives by his daughters, and annotations drawing on published and unpublished material, including the FBI file on Mills.

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This book gathers an assortment of professional and personal correspondence to form a complex and authentic portrait of one of the century's most dynamic public intellectuals.

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ISBN:
9780520211063
Subtitle:
Letters and Autobiographical Writings
Editor:
Mills, Kathryn
Editor:
Mills, Pamela
Author:
Mills, Kathryn
Publisher:
University of California Press
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Biography
Subject:
Historical - U.S.
Subject:
Sociologists
Publication Date:
May 2000
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
406
Dimensions:
9.35x6.36x1.35 in. 1.79 lbs.

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