C. Wright Mills [1916-62] at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore

Charles Wright Mills was a radical intellectual of the 1950s, a social scientist and
merciless critic of ideology, and a writer of scrupulous, robust & generous mind.
His ideas continue to resonate today.

C. Wright Mills was born at Waco, Texas on 28 August 1916. He did well at the University of Texas, graduating in philosophy in 1939. He received his PhD degree at the University of Wisconsin in 1941; his heroes were Max Weber [1864-1920] & Karl Marx, his dissertation was on pragmatism. After a short stint at the University of Maryland, he moved to Columbia University in New York City in 1945. He was promoted to assistant professor [of sociology] in 1946; though he was not given a full professorship until 1956, he nonetheless turned down other offers and stayed at Columbia out of belief that New York City was the center of U.S. intellectual activity.

The ambitious three works on stratification for which he is most famous are "The New Men of Power: America's Labor Leaders" (1948), "White Collar: The American Middle Classes" (1951), and his best-known & most controversial work, "The Power Elite" (1956). Later works included a scathing book on sociological practice, "The Sociological Imagination" (1959).

        He had three wives, who each bore one child.
        He died on 20 March 1962, in Nyack, N.Y. His two daughters published a book of his collected letters in May 2000.
        The major search engines bring up dozens of serious & important links about C. Wright Mills, by sociologists busy using his concepts today, in a multitude of languages; some are included here.

"Mills is half forgotten – perhaps because much of what he said is now taken for granted."
— Norman Birnbaum

	"New Men of Power: America's Labor Leaders" with Helen Schneider [Harcourt Brace 1948] Univ IL Press pb [9/2001] for $17.95 Univ IL Press 8½x5¾ hardcover [9/2001] for $40.00 A.M. Kelley hardcover [1/71] for $46.99
	"White Collar: The American Middle Classes" [1951] Oxford Univ Press 8x6.4 pb [9/2002] for $12.57 Oxford Univ Press 8x5 pb [7/83] out of print/used
	"The Power Elite" [1956] Oxford Univ Press pb [1/2000] for $12.41 Oxford Univ Press pb [2/93] out of print/used Oxford Univ Press pb [1/60] out of print/used
	"The Sociological Imagination" [1959] Oxford Univ Press 8x5¼ pb [7/2000] for $10.47 Oxford Univ Press pb [2/90] out of print/used Oxford Univ Press 8x5 pb [12/67] out of print/used
	"C. Wright Mills: Letters & Autobiographical Writings" [2000] Edited by Kathryn Mills & Pamela Mills Univ CA Press 9½x5½ pb [8/2001] for $13.27 Univ CA Press 9½x6½ hardcover [5/2000] for $40.00

	"Radical Ambition: C. Wright Mills, The Left, and American Social Thought" [2009] by Daniel Geary Univ CA Press 9x6¼ hardcover [3/2009] for $31.55
	"The Politics of Truth: Selected Writings of C. Wright Mills" [2008] Selected & Introduced by John H. Summers Oxford Univ Press 9x6 pb [9/2008] for $19.75out of print/used Oxford Univ Press 9x6½ hardcover [9/2008] for $99.00
	"Radical Nomad: C. Wright Mills & His Times" [2006] by Tom Hayden, with Stanley Aronowitz, Richard Flacks & Charles C. Lemert Paradigm pb [6/2006] for $25.95 Paradigm hardcover [6/2006] for $87.00
	"Veblen, Dewey, and Mills: An Intellectual Relationship" [2003] by Rick Tilman Rowman & Littlefield 9x6 hardcover [12/2003] for $65.00
	"C. Wright Mills and The Ending of Violence" [2003] by John D. Brewer Palgrave Macmillan 9x5½ hardcover [10/2003] for $65.00
	"Collaboration, Reputation, and Ethics in American Academic Life: Hans H. Gerth & C. Wright Mills" [1999] by Guy Oakes & Arthur J. Vidich Univ IL Press 9x6 pb [10/99] for $16.95 Univ IL Press hardcover [11/99] for $39.49

	"Character and Social Structure: The Psychology of Social Institutions" [Harcourt Brace 1953] by Hans Gerth & C. Wright Mills Harvest Books 8½x5½ pb [10/99] for $26.00
	"The Causes of World War Three" [1958] M.E. Sharpe pb [8/85] out of print/used Greenwood Publg hardcover [6/76] out of print/used

Maison d'Être Philosophy BookstoreC. Wright Mills [1916-1962]

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C. Wright Mills
[1916-1962]