| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 39800 |
| QUOTATION: | The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | C. Wright Mills (1916–1962), U.S. sociologist. The Power Elite, ch. 4 (1956). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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