Radical Ambition: C. Wright Mills, the Left, and American Social Thought Hardcover - 2009
by Dan Geary
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"Dan Geary has given us a brilliant new biography of C. Wright Mills, a sophisticated and engaging study suited for 21st century readers. Never the sociological outlaw that so many of his followers once celebrated, Geary demonstrates that Mills' radicalism arose out of an intimate engagement with mainstream social science issues. He argues that Mills, like Talcott Parsons and Robert Merton, were part of a larger effort to study total social structures, but Mills always infused this quest with a subversive probe of the status quo that balanced a particularizing historicism against his constant ambition to tackle the big questions. Written with verve and insight, Dan Geary's biography is essential reading for our times."--Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Against conventional wisdom Daniel Geary shows how C. Wright Mills, the iconic U.S. public sociologist, was very much a product of his times, and, for most of his life, was deeply embedded in both the academy and politics. Geary brings out the fruits and tensions of participating in both worlds, with lessons for all of us who want to continue in Mills's tradition. Beautifully written and fascinating, especially on the early years of the iconoclast-intellectual."--Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley
"At last: an authentically Millsian biography of C.W. that eschews the romantic icon in order to recover the thinker in all of his magnificent ambition and complexity. Geary is a fresh wind in American intellectual history."--Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums
"Geary's analysis of C. Wright Mills should help put this great sociologist's ideas back into college classrooms, where he has been sorely missed."--Saul Landau, Institute for Policy Studies
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- Title Radical Ambition: C. Wright Mills, the Left, and American Social Thought
- Author Dan Geary
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition, F
- Pages 296
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley, California
- Date 2009-04-14
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Recycled Paper, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780520258365 / 0520258363
- Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 1 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
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Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Sociological
- Library of Congress subjects Mills, C. Wright, Sociology - United States - History - 20th
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008035577
- Dewey Decimal Code 301.092
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Citations
- Chronicle of Higher Education, 06/26/2009, Page 17
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