We’re getting madder about Mad Men. We have plenty in store before Sunday’s season premiere. First up today, Mad Men Unbuttoned. In it, Natasha Vargas-Cooper, the talent behind the wonderful Footnotes of Mad Men blog (so worth some browsing time), surveys “not only the show but also the real-world historical and cultural artifacts of that period.” Vargas says the series is “about the culture clash and contradictions that occurred during the twilight of the Eisenhower era, the great societal shake-up of the 1960s” and how this drove “the most dramatic cultural shift in the 20th century.”
In the book, she runs down “all the series’ regular characters,” along with real-life Madison Ave. men, ” followed by everything from skinny ties, condoms, John Cheever and Frank O’Hara to Jackie Kennedy.”
You can read an excerpt from a chapter called “Don Draper’s Sex Appeal” at The Daily Beast.
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