Collaboration, Reputation and Ethics in American Academic Life: Hans H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills

by Arthur J. Vidich and Guy Oakes

"The meteoric rise of the sociologist C. Wright Mills from a brash and ambitious graduate student to a leading figure in the American intellectual establishment was launched by his collaboration with Hans Gerth on two seminal works on Max Weber. The story of their thirteen-year partnership reveals a relationship of Shakespearean complexity in which respect, trust, generosity, and perhaps even love did not exclude envy, resentment, deceit, and betrayal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252068076
• ISBN13: 9780252068072
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"