<Tr> <Th> Subject </Th> <Td> Sociology </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Publication date </Th> <Td> 1956 </Td> </Tr> <P> 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 society and suggests that the ordinary citizen is a relatively powerless subject of manipulation by those entities . </P> <P> The book is something of a counterpart of Mills' 1951 work, White Collar: The American Middle Classes, which examines the then - growing role of middle managers in American society . A main inspiration for the book was Franz Leopold Neumann's book Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism in 1942, a study of how Nazism came into a position of power in a democratic state like Germany . Behemoth had a major impact on Mills and he claimed that Behemoth had given him the "tools to grasp and analyse the entire total structure and as a warning of what could happen in a modern capitalist democracy". </P>

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