And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America (Margaret Mead: The Study of Contemporary Western Culture, 2) Hardcover – July 1, 2000

Great copy

"The way that people behave is all of a piece, their virtues and their sins, the way they slap the baby, handle their court cases, and bury their dead. It would be impossible to suddenly introduce 'democracy' ... into an undemocratic society -as it would suddenly to introduce feudalism into a modern American city."Even more applicable today.

A new, enlarged edition of Margaret Mead's classic study of the American character containing a long chapter which views the United States in the second half of the 1960's.Mead's book remains one of the most illuminating discussions of the American character we have.___________________An Apollo trade paperback; 1965. 340 pages.