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Mills’  own sociological imagination was inspired by what he referred to as the  classic sociological tradition, the main feature of which is "the  concern with historical social structures: and that its problems are of  direct relevance to urgent public issues and insistent human troubles."   Mills links personal troubles with public issues and threads biography  into the historical structural dynamic. The achievement of the classic  tradition lies in the creation of models of society that illuminate the  impact of social change on people and on their potential for response.  M. O'Donnell (2010) in his piece, "Charles Wright Mills’ Sociological  Imagination and Why We Fail to Match it Today" wrote, "Mills’ book, The  Sociological Imagination, has inspired generations of young and not so  young social scientists. This is partly because he wrote a great book –  once voted the second most important sociological book of the twentieth  century after Weber’s Economy and Society, partly because he practiced  what he advocated, but also because he was an inspiring and, in the best  sense of the word, idealistic human being. Mills the sociologist,  campaigner and character fused to generate a charisma to which there is  no recent or present comparison in social science.  He retained a  grounded utopianism that he defined as a commitment to an attainable but  radically fairer and more equal future. His message is no less relevant  now" (p. 20).