C. Wright Mills : Letters and Autobiographical Writings.
Title:
C. Wright Mills : Letters and Autobiographical Writings.
Author:
Mills, C. Wright.
ISBN:
9780520928091
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (430 pages)
Contents:
PREFACE -- REMEMBRANCE -- MY FATHER HAUNTS ME -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- I. GROWING UP IN TEXAS: 1916-1939 -- II. GRADUATE STUDIES: Madison, Wisconsin, 1939-1941 -- III. STARTING OUT: College Park, Maryland, 1941-1945 -- IV. TAKING IT BIG: New York, New York, 1945-1956 -- V. AN AMERICAN ABORIGINAL GOES ABROAD: From New York to Europe and Mexico, 1956-1960 -- VI. THE LAST TWO YEARS: New York and Cuba, 1960-1962 -- CHRONOLOGY -- BOOKS BY C. WRIGHT MILLS -- NOTES ON SELECTED CORRESPONDENTS -- Photographs.
Abstract:
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to an imaginary friend in Russia, personal narratives by his daughters, and annotations drawing on published and unpublished material, including the FBI file on Mills.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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