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4 unusual facts about C. Wright Mills


C. Wright Mills

In a November 1956 letter to his friends Bette and Harvey Swados, Mills declared

Wobblies are members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and the direct action they are favouring includes passive resistance, strikes, and boycotts.

John Ventimiglia

In August, 2007, Ventimiglia and the David Amram quartet presented a musical and oral homage to sociologist C. Wright Mills and beat author Jack Kerouac.

Who Rules America?

In his introduction, Domhoff writes that the book was inspired by the work of four men: sociologists E. Digby Baltzell, C. Wright Mills, economist Paul Sweezy, and political scientist Robert A. Dahl.


Irving Louis Horowitz

Early in his career, Horowitz was a student of Leftist sociologist C. Wright Mills, a Texas-born professor at Columbia University whose most significant books include, White Collar, The Power Elite, and The Sociological Imagination.


see also

White collar

White Collar: The American Middle Classes, a study of the American middle class by sociologist C. Wright Mills