Taking it Big

Taking it Big PDF Author: Stanley Aronowitz
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231135408
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Book Description
C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) 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. This book reconstructs this icon's formation and the new dimension of American political life that followed his work.