The politics of truth : selected writings of C. Wright Mills / selected and introduced by John H. Summers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

New man of power / by John Summers -- The powerless people : the role of the intellectual in society -- The intellectual and the labor leader -- Sociological poetry -- Contribution to our country and our culture : a symposium -- On intellectual craftsmanship -- Thorstein Veblen -- IBM plus reality plus humanism = sociology -- Are we losing our sense of belonging? -- The conservative mood -- Mass society and liberal education -- On knowledge and power -- The power elite : comment on criticism -- Science and scientists -- A pagan sermon to the Christian clergy -- The man in the middle -- The big city -- Culture and politics : the fourth epoch -- The cultural apparatus -- The decline of the left -- On Latin America, the left, and the U.S. -- Soviet journal -- Listen, Yankee! The Cuban case against the U.S. -- Letter to the new left.