White Collar by C. Wright Mills — Read

In the United States in the middle of the twentieth century, there are, of course, people who approximate the liberal view of the citizen, especially among the educated upper middle class; there are also people who are class-conscious in a Marxian sense, especially among the upper ranks and, in a derived way, among intellectuals. There are also people who display all the necessary qualifications for political loyalty, and some who fulfil the requirements for the insurgent.

But the most decisive comment that can be made about the state of U. S. politics concerns the facts of widespread public indifference, which today overshadow in significance both those of loyalty and those of insurgency.