Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. - Margaret Mead

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Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

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About Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead (16 December 1901 – 15 November 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

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Alternative Names: Margaret Bateson Margaret Mead Bateson Margaret Fortune Margaret Mead Fortune
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