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Margaret Mead: A Life"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
"Engaging . . . a fine biography that gets beyond the public icon to a portrait of the real woman."--Chicago Sun-TimesAt 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 and child rearing, sex and freedom, world hunger, war, and the politics of peace. Outrageous and extravagant, Mead was, in every sense of the word, spirited. Friendships and families of many kinds were at the core of her personal life, and she was both loyal and demanding with people, always challenging them to move in new directions. An inveterate world traveler, a teacher at Columbia University, and curator of The Museum of Natural History, Mead wrote thirty-four books, made ten films, and was granted twenty-eight honorary degrees and numerous awards. This intimate and fascinating story is an astonishing record of the personal and scientific life of an extraordinary human being. Praise for Margaret Mead "Mead was, as Miss Howard's abundantly and unfailing lively account shows, a very American individual. . . . Miss Howard writes not as an anthropologist but as the superb reporter she is."--The Wall Street Journal
"A triumph of industry, imagination, and literary grace."--The Washington Post
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 12/16/1989
ISBN: 9780449904978
Pages: 548
Weight: 1.82lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.18w x 1.34d
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★★★★★ 5
Great food for thought!
Format: Kindle
What a great resource for young people tackling the seemingly impossible task of figuring out what they want to do with their lives. Facing this challenge can be overwhelming, but this book offers practical advice and insight to navigate these uncharted waters.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2022
★★★★★ 3
Incomplete
Format: Paperback
Incomplete- overall has some good content, but missing networking, informational interviews.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Useful / current info for high school thru college
Format: Paperback
Really great book. Highly recommend. Just read it and passed along to my son who is entering junior year in college. Everything in the book still applies to college students as well. Useful QR codes throughout book.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2022
★★★★★ 5
very informative
Format: Paperback
Very good information for anyone. Not just for new college students.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2023
★★★★★ 5
Very Good and Well Written
Format: Hardcover
Probably about on page 55, enjoying reading. No page bleeds for me, it's a good-looking book. One of the cool ideas in here was this part that said that the super difficult emotions like grief, if you ignore these emotions, ***They get buried alive. Buried alive. BURIED ALIVE .*** SO well said!
And That's why we benefit by doing the work to unbury and fully feel and fully respond to Life. As Brené Brown says, when we cut ourselves off from the ChallenginG emotions, like Grief, and try to run from them, we're ALSO cutting ourselves off from the fun, happy, positive emotions like JOY and LOVE and BELONGING.
I really appreciate how this book might say "God" and talk about things being Holy AND YET this book is NOT centered on religion. I would not be able to read it if it was. I feel in good hands since the author seems wiser than religion and religiosity. For me, God is cool; religion is Not.
This book feels good to read. I think this can be a helpful book for EveryonE, these days - even those who've already been on this spiritual Healing journey for quite some time.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2026