Kings of Madison Avenue: The Unofficial Guide to Mad Men

Copyright......Page 4
Dedication\n......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 7
How the Kings Roll: What You Can Expect\n......Page 11
Smoking, Drinking, Selling: It’s Don Draper’s World and We Just Live in It \n......Page 15
Jon Hamm — \"Don Draper”\n......Page 25
Elisabeth Moss — \"Peggy Olson”\n......Page 29
John Slattery — \"Roger Sterling\"\n......Page 32
Vincent Kartheiser — \"Pete Campbell\"\n......Page 36
Christina Hendricks — \"Joan Holloway\"\n......Page 39
January Jones — \"Betty Draper\"\n......Page 42
Robert Morse — \"Bertram Cooper\"\n......Page 44
1.01 Smoke Gets in Your Eyes\n......Page 47
Gender Politics and Helen Gurley Brown’s Sex and the Single Girl\n......Page 52
1.02 Ladies Room\n......Page 59
1.03 Marriage of Figaro\n......Page 63
Doyle Dane & Bernbach’s “Think Small” Campaign for Volkswagen\n......Page 67
1.04 New Amsterdam\n......Page 73
1.05 5G\n......Page 78
1.06 Babylon\n......Page 82
1.07 Red in the Face\n......Page 87
1.08 The Hobo Code\n......Page 92
Before Sterling Cooper — Recommended Viewing: Delbert Mann’s Lover Come Back\n......Page 97
1.09 Shoot \n......Page 100
Before Sterling Cooper — Recommended Reading: Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique\n......Page 104
1.10 Long Weekend\n......Page 109
Before Sterling Cooper — Recommended Viewing: Billy Wilder’s The Apartment \n......Page 113
1.11 Indian Summer \n......Page 115
Nixon, Kennedy, and the Changing Face of American Politics \n......Page 120
1.13 The Wheel \n......Page 133
Redskins Presidential Prediction Record \n......Page 136
2.01 For Those Who Think Young\n......Page 139
2.02 Flight 1 \n......Page 144
Before Sterling Cooper — Recommended Viewing: David Swift’s How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying \n......Page 148
2.03 The Benefactor \n......Page 152
Money Part Two — What They Made Then and What They Make Now\n......Page 156
2.04 Three Sundays \n......Page 157
2.05 The New Girl\n......Page 161
2.06 Maidenform\n......Page 166
2.07 The Gold Violin \n......Page 171
2.08 A Night to Remember \n......Page 176
Before Sterling Cooper — Recommended Reading: Richard Yates’s Revolutionary Road and Disturbing the Peace \n......Page 181
2.09 Six Month Leave \n......Page 186
2.10 The Inheritance \n......Page 189
Civil Rights Movement — Dr. Howard Thurman’s Jesus and the Disinherited and its Influence on Dr. Martin Luther King \n......Page 194
2.11 The Jet Set\n......Page 199
Guest Stars — I Know That Face...\n......Page 203
2.12 The Mountain King \n......Page 204
Notable Writers and Directors from Mad Men\n......Page 209
2.13 Meditations in an Emergency\n......Page 210
Before Sterling Cooper — Recommended Reading: Frank O’Hara’s Meditations in an Emergency\n......Page 215
How to Party Like the Mad Men\n......Page 219
The Perfect Manhattan Rendezvous: An Itinerary for Touring Locations Highlighted in Mad Men \n......Page 228
Sources \n......Page 233
About the Author\n......Page 242