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An analysis of C. Wright Mills' The Causes of World War Three. A deviant among sociol'ts, his colleagues belabor his imprecise res methods & his emotional language. He, in turn, criticizes their failure to deal with really large & important soc issues. Like Riesman, he is concerned with assessing the new US society, but unlike him, he has an unfashionable concern for the Ur poor, his tone is angry, & he is quite sure that the current course of events is both depressing & dangerous. He now calls for a liquidation of untenable alliances, more particularly in Asia; for a withdrawal from some advanced bases that give the USSR a legitimate grievance; for a halt in the testing of nuclear weapons & in the competitive scramble for propaganda advantage in outer space; for ceaseless effort to reach an agreement for general disarmament-to the point of willful self-exposure. In this last point Mills has overstepped the necessities of his own argument. Nevertheless, his call for a revival of radical-Utopian thinking is an impressive one indeed. (See SA 8148). J. A. Fishman.