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The article The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills is an article about the three major groups that control our country. This article attempts to open its reader's eyes to the idea that no one person or group makes decisions for themselves. The only way that decisions are made is by those that make up the "power elite". These people are put into different divisions of elitists. These groups are the big corporations, the political elite, and the military elite.
Mills first proposes that the top leaders that the power elite consist of are divided into three areas. The "corporate elite is made up of the executives from large companies; the military elite is the senior officers; and the small political elite includes the president and top officials in the executive and legislative branches"(415). It is Mills' theory is that no decision is made by those who are not solely linked to one of these powers. Even the lack of decision making in one of these areas is, in itself, a decision or......

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