"Who Rules America?" anyone familiar with this site?

[SouthernDonkey]

I was given this link from a friend on FB. Interesting reading, but I haven't researched the background of it.
Any thoughts or opinions?

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

[cali]

1. looks like there's a wealth of useful information

thanks for the link.

[hedda_foil]

2. Very legit.

It's on the University of California, Santa Cruz website, and is run by G. William Domhoff, whose bio is on the site here: http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/

About Bill Domhoff G. William Domhoff, who goes by "Bill," is a Research Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Born into an apolitical middle-American family in what he and his friends thought of as the Midwest (Ohio), he received his B.A. at Duke University, his M.A. at Kent State University, and his Ph.D. at the University of Miami. He has been teaching at the University of California, Santa Cruz, since 1965. Four of his books are among the top 50 best sellers in sociology for the years 1950 to 1995: Who Rules America? (1967); The Higher Circles (1970); The Powers That Be (1979); and Who Rules America Now?(1983). More recently, he is the author of The New CEOs (2011, with Richard L. Zweigenhaft), Class and Power in the New Deal (2011, with Michael Webber), The Leftmost City (2009, with Richard Gendron), and Who Rules America: Challenges to Corporate and Class Dominance, 6th ed. (2009). In 2007, Bill received the University of California's Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award,which honors the post-retirement contributions of UC faculty.

[teddy51]

3. Thanks, will bookmark that for later.

[malaise]

4. It's legit

We had textbooks written by Domhoff as undergraduates. I use data from the site.

[SouthernDonkey]

5. Great!

From my cursory reading of the section dealing with wealth, it seemed like a very good reference and I thought it might be of interest to some of the folks here at DU. I plan on exploring it more in depth.

[malaise]

6. Check out Michael Parenti

His Democracy for the Few is still my favorite - good website as well.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

7. Great link!

Thank you.