C. Wright Mills

Letters and Autobiographical Writings
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-520-23209-9
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 233 mm x 157 mm, Gewicht: 682 g

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to an imaginary friend in Russia, personal narratives by his daughters, and annotations drawing on published and unpublished material, including the FBI file on Mills.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mills, C. Wright

Mills, Kathryn

Weitere Mitwirkende

Wakefield, Dan

Mills, Pamela

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).