The Power Elite
1956 · 442 pages
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.
★ 6.8
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The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
1956 · 262 pages
Mizoguchi stammers, and the beauty of Kyoto's Golden Pavilion stands between him and every living thing. Mishima builds the 1950 arson by an acolyte into a case for destroying what you cannot possess.
★ 6.6
The Peculiar Institution
Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South
1956 · 435 pages
Stampp argued in 1956 that Southern slavery was a profitable labor system sustained by violence, not the benign paternalism white historians taught. The plantation legend never recovered its standing in American history departments.
★ 5.9
The Organization Man
1956 · 429 pages
Whyte went into corporations and the new suburb of Park Forest and found Americans trading the old ethic of individual striving for belonging. The organization wanted the whole man, and got him.
★ 5.8
The Sweet Science
1956 · 267 pages
Liebling covered Rocky Marciano knocking out an aging Joe Louis, writing the trainers and cornermen with as much relish as the champions. He set the standard American boxing writing still works from.
★ 5.6
My Family and Other Animals
1956 · 273 pages
On Corfu in the 1930s a boy hunts scorpions and owls while his mother and three grown siblings supply the chaos. Durrell describes every creature exactly and every relative without mercy.
★ 5.0