A serious biography of American Cultural Anthropologist, Author, Scientist and Public Figure Margaret Mead, Robert Cassidy picks up where Mead herself left off in her earlier autobiography, "Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years". Mead specifically gave Cassidy permission to write this before her death in 1978. Mead was a respected and often controversial academic who popularized the insights of anthropology in modern American and Western culture.[2] Her reports detailing the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures influenced the 1960s sexual revolution. She was a proponent of broadening sexual mores within a context of traditional Western religious life. "Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -Mead - from Amzon