first edition Hardcover
1956 · New York
by Mills, C. Wright
New York: Oxford University Press, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. C. Wright Mills' (1916-1962) sixth book and one that is still relevant today. Mills posits that political, military, and economic elites "share a common world view; that power rests in the centralization of authority within the elites of American society." A remarkably scare book. Fourth Printing, 1957. 423 pp. 8vo. Wear and scuffing to dust jacket, small chips and losses at edges, closed tear at upper left corner of front panel, now in mylar cover. Black cloth boards with silver and blue titling to spine. Very clean within. (Inventory #: 29772)