The Power Elite

In the author's view "the war lords, the corporation chieftains, the political directorate"--the choice of terms suggests the temper of the book--interlock to create the American power élite, a system of "organized irresponsibility." While Mr. Mills has his eye upon a number of real problems of American society, his analysis frequently succumbs to rhetorical outbursts and at the end fails to arrive at a convincing diagnosis.