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... Read More
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... Read More
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to an imaginary friend in Russia, personal narratives by his daughters, and annotations drawing on published and unpublished material, including the FBI file on Mills.
Details
Price: $21.95
Pages: 300
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date: 31st May 2000
ISBN: 9780520928091
Format: eBook
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters
Author Bio
C. Wright Mills was a maverick social scientist who taught in Copenhagen, London, and Mexico City in addition to the United States. His work has been translated into twenty-three languages. Kathryn Mills works for a book publisher in Boston. Pamela Mills teaches American literature and composition in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Dan Wakefield is the author of New York in the Fifties (1992), which is the basis for a documentary film, Island in the City: The World of Spanish Harlem (1959), and many other works, including the best-selling novels Going All the Way (1970) and Selling Out (1985).
Table of Contents
Preface Remembrance by Kathryn Mills My Father Haunts Me by Pamela Mills Acknowledgments Introduction by Dan Wakefield 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 Cosmopolitan: Europe, New York, and Mexico, 1956-1960 VI. The Last Two Years: New York and Cuba, 1960-1962 Chronology Books by C. Wright Mills: American and Foreign editions Notes on Selected Correspondents About the Editors Glossary of Abbreviations Index
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.
Price: $21.95
Pages: 300
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date: 31st May 2000
ISBN: 9780520928091
Format: eBook
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters
C. Wright Mills was a maverick social scientist who taught in Copenhagen, London, and Mexico City in addition to the United States. His work has been translated into twenty-three languages. Kathryn Mills works for a book publisher in Boston. Pamela Mills teaches American literature and composition in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Dan Wakefield is the author of New York in the Fifties (1992), which is the basis for a documentary film, Island in the City: The World of Spanish Harlem (1959), and many other works, including the best-selling novels Going All the Way (1970) and Selling Out (1985).
Preface Remembrance by Kathryn Mills My Father Haunts Me by Pamela Mills Acknowledgments Introduction by Dan Wakefield 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 Cosmopolitan: Europe, New York, and Mexico, 1956-1960 VI. The Last Two Years: New York and Cuba, 1960-1962 Chronology Books by C. Wright Mills: American and Foreign editions Notes on Selected Correspondents About the Editors Glossary of Abbreviations Index
