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— C. Wright Mills"The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise."
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I grew up reading biographies on groups, and I love all that. The thing about biographies, it's the old cliché but it's true - a lot of the time these things are more about the author than they are about the group.
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