MARGARET MEAD: A LIFE

Fawcett Crest, New York, 1985, 1^st pr thus.  ISBN 0-449-20836-2.  MMPB, 541 pages including Acknowledgments, Notes, Selected Bibliography, Selected Margaret Mead Books and Articles, Recent Articles Concerning Mead-Freeman Controversy, and Index.  Very good; some edge and cover wear, light reading creases; binding sound.  Interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanned pages; black & white photo plate section.  ‘At the age of 23, in the 1920s, she went alone to the South Seas and wrote, in her now classic Coming of Age in Samoa, of adolescent sexuality and guilt-free love.  For the next half-century, Margaret Mead would be 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.’ (from rear wrap)