C. Wright Mills

C. Wright Mills was a radical, controversial intellectual and social scientist in America in the 1950s. He taught at Wisconsin and Maryland universities, and was a professor at Columbia from 1946 until his death in 1962. His most famous books included "The New Men of Power: America's Labor Leaders" (1948), "White Collar: The American Middle Classes" (1951), and "The Sociological Imagination" (1959); and his best-known and most controversial work was "The Power Elite" (1956). His writings inspired a large audience, and he had an important influence on the American New Left, although he was criticized by his academic colleagues. Mills married three times, and had one child with each wife. Two daughters of Mills's published a book of his collected letters in 2000.