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Power in the United States
Lynd, Robert S. | May 12, 1956 issue

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This article discusses the book "The Power Elite," by C. Wright Mills. "Power Elite," should be one of the widely discussed books of the year. Much of the picture of power is here, and interestingly presented. Mills is a sophisticated man who writes with a muscular vitality that never allows the readers attention to flag: and his forty-nine pages of footnotes, many of them elaborations of the text, indicate the breadth of the materials from which he draws. Mills's failure to deal with the meanings for democracy of the impressive power trends he analyzes is the colossal loose-end of "The Power Elite."

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POWER Elite, The (Book); MILLS, C. Wright (Charles Wright), 1916-1962; VITAL force; DEMOCRACY; EQUALITY; POLITICAL systems
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