Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 16:11:57 -0400
From: N Miller <nmiller-AT-trincoll.edu>
Subject: Re: NY Times article on Riesman


Hiro Saito wrote:
 
> If I remember correctly, C. W. Mills never got tenured as a sociology
> professor. American sociology was (and still is?) capable of producing an
> intellectual like him but of destroying his academic career at the same
> time.
>

A widely-believed myth.  Mills was a professor in the College, a tenured position.  He chose not to join the  department (though he taught occasional graduate-level courses).  _White Collar_ began as a graduate seminar.  I was in it.  Mills was an admirable but difficult man and made no friends in the department, but it's absurd to suggest that his academic career was destroyed by his colleagues.  Robert Lynd for one would never have countenanced that.

Norman Miller
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