Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

S. political military and economic elites White Collar on the American middle class and The Sociological Imagination where Mills proposes the proper relationship in sociological scholarship between biography and history. Among them The Power Elite which introduced that term and describes the relationships and class alliances among the U.