Radical ambition C. Wright Mills, the Left, and American Social Thought /
Daniel Geary.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)2009.
- 1 online resource (xi, 277 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: maverick on a motorcycle? The thought and times of C. Wright Mills -- Student ambitions: the education of a social scientist -- What is happening in the world today: Weberian sociology and radical political analysis -- The union of the power and the intellect: the labor movement and bureau-driven social research -- The new little men: 'white collar' -- The politics of truth: 'the power elite' and 'the sociological imagination' -- Worldly ambitions: the emergence of a global new left -- Epilogue: the legacy of C. Wright Mills.