SUMMERS, John H.

Perpetual Revelations : C. Wright Mills and Paul Lazarsfeld - Thousand Oaks : SAGE, November 2006

This article narrates the prehistory and posthistory of Personal Influence as an episode in the biographies of Paul Lazarsfeld and C. Wright Mills. It begins in 1945, when Lazarsfeld sent Mills to Decatur, Illinois, to undertake the fieldwork, and ends with Mills's death in 1962