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The Power Elite
By C. Wright Mills Mills’s purpose for writing The Power Elite was to provide an answer to the question, “Who rules America?” The answer Mills gives is a three-part elite compromised of corporate, political, and military leaders. These three sections of American life are connected and molding other organizations to suit their needs. Churches, families, and schools have adapted to modern life and the needs that the government presents them with. Mills wrote The Power Elite to show people that there are people who can affect the world with just a world, but the ordinary man cannot. Not everyone has the same amount of powers. In The Power Elite, Mills describes how a few people are in control, managing everything

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