Margaret Mead: The Making of an American Icon
Margaret Mead: Making of an American Icon by Nancy C. Lutkehaus “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.”–Margaret Mead This quotation–found on posters and bumper stickers, and adopted as the motto for hundreds of organizations worldwide–speaks to the global influence and legacy of the American anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901-78). In this insightful and revealing book, Nancy Lutkehaus explains how and why Mead became the best-known anthropologist and female public intellectual in twentieth-century America....