And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America

Margaret Mead wrote this comprehensive sketch of the culture of the United States — the first since de Tocqueville — in 1942 at the beginnning of the Second World War, when Americans were confronted by foreign powers from both Europe and Asia in a particularly challenging manner. Mead's work became an instant classic. It was required reading for anthropology students for nearly two decades, and was widely translated. It was revised and expanded in 1965 for a second generation of readers. Am...