The Power Elite
The Power Elite is a 1956 book by sociologist C. Wright Mills, in which Mills calls attention to the interwoven interests of the leaders of the military, corporate, and political elements of the American society and suggests that the ordinary citizen in modern times is a relatively powerless subject of manipulation by those three entities. == Background == The book is something of a counterpart of Mills's 1951 work, White Collar: The American Middle Classes, which examines the then-growing role of middle managers in American society.