Taking It Big: C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals

by Stanley Aronowitz

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C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) was a pathbreaking intellectual who transformed the independent American Left in the 1940s and 1950s. Often challenging the established ideologies and approaches of fellow leftist thinkers, Mills was central to creating and developing the idea of the "public intellectual" in postwar America and laid the political foundations for the rise of the New Left in the 1960s. Written by Stanley Aronowitz, a leading sociologist...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0231135416

ISBN13:9780231135412

Release Date:April 2014

Publisher:Columbia University Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.7" x 8.7"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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History Political Science Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences

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