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# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:14:43.465Z

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name: "C. Wright Mills"
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description: "Charles Wright Mills was an American sociologist, and a professor of sociology at Columbia University from 1946 until his death in 1962. Mills published widely in both popular and intellectual journals, and is remembered for several books, such as The Power Elite, White Collar: The American Middle Classes, and The Sociological Imagination, which was in 1998 named by the International Sociological Association as the second most important sociological book of the 20th century."
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birthDate: "1916-08-28"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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