Mead is the Atlantis of modern social thought. He lies buried in the deep between Europe and the U.S., a substantial mass of learning and theoretical play, familiar only to those few divers with enough equipment and time to clear off tons of detritus and map the strange terrain. Until his recent death at 83, the divers were led by David L. Miller, one of Mead's last students before his own death in 1931. His George Herbert Mead (Texas, 1973) has become the favored primer in a small field that includes earlier works by Natanson (1956) and Pfuetze (1961). An accomplished philosopher, student in seven of Mead's courses at Chicago.