<P> Who Rules America? is a book by research psychologist and sociologist, G. William Domhoff, Ph. D., first published in 1967 as a best - seller (#12), with six subsequent editions including Who Rules America Now? (1983, #43), Who Rules America? Challenges to Corporate and Class Dominance (2009), Who Rules America? Power and Politics (2013), Who Rules America? The Triumph of the Corporate Rich (2013), and the forthcoming, Studying the Power Elite: Fifty Years of Who Rules America (2017). </P> <P> It is frequently assigned as a sociology textbook and argues against the concentration of power and wealth in the American upper class . The 2010 edition brings the discussion up to date and also includes the rise of Barack Obama, his campaign finance supporters, and the nature of his administration . </P> <P> Domhoff argues in the book that a power elite wields power in America through its support of think - tanks, foundations, commissions, and academic departments . Additionally, he argues that the elite controls institutions through overt authority, not through covert influence . </P> <P> In his introduction, Domhoff writes that the book was inspired by the work of four men: sociologists E. Digby Baltzell, C. Wright Mills, economist Paul Sweezy, and political scientist Robert A. Dahl . </P>

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