This companion comprises interpretive, critical, and exploratory essays on Mills's chief writings as well as his interventions in the political conflicts of his time, stressing important aspects of his work that are neglected in the literature.

1: C. Wright Mills on Law and Society: Hidden in Plain Sight? (William Rose); 2: Mills on the Economics of the Old Middle Class (Nahid Aslanbeigui and Guy Oakes); 3: Revisting C. Wright Mills on the Militarization of Postwar American Society (Andrew D. Grossman);4. A Critical Assessment of the Historical and Economic Underpinnings of C. Wright Mills’s The Power Elite (Michele I. Naples); 5: Mills as Ethical Theorist: The Military Metaphysics and the Higher Immorality (Guy Oakes); 6: C. Wright Mills and Latin America (Verónica Montecinos); 7: For a Feminist Sociological Imagination: A Personal Retrospective on C. Wright Mills (Stevi Jackson); 8: The Sociological Imagination: An Unredeemed Promise (Gerhard Wagner and Kai Müller); 9: Recent Changes in the Shape of Power (Stanley Aronowitz) 

Dr Guy Oakes is Professor in the Department of Management and Decision Science at Monmouth University, USA.