Book · 1956 · Nonfiction

The Power Elite

Name: The Power Elite
Author: C. Wright Mills

Oxford University Press · 442 pages

★ 6.8 editorial score

Three sets of men run America, the sociologist Mills argued: corporate chiefs, politicians, and generals drawn from the same schools and clubs. The New Left took its name and its target from him.

Genre

Sociology

Subject

Elites Political power Power

Time

1956

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“By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.”

C. Wright Mills