And Keep Your Powder Dry : An Anthropologist Looks at America (Margaret Mead: The Study of Contemporary Western Culture) (Library Binding)

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.