Margaret Mead: A Life

by Jane Howard

Book Overview

"Engaging . . . a fine biography that gets beyond the public icon to a portrait of the real woman."-- Chicago Sun-Times At the age of twenty-three, in the 1920s, Margaret Mead traveled alone to the South Sea and wrote of adolescent sexuality and guilt-free love in her now classic Coming of Age in Samoa. For the next half-century, Mead would act as a powerful participant and opinion maker in the largest issues of her time: culture and religion, education...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0449904970
• ISBN13: 9780449904978
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 532 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.0"