Mad Men : a cultural history /
M. Keith Booker and Bob Batchelor.
- xxii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- The cultural history of television .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I : Mad Men as America -- Who is Don Draper? -- Mad Men and the American dream -- Mad Men, bad men : American vices -- Part II : Mad Men and culture -- A Mad Men reading list -- The music of Mad Men : satisfaction not guaranteed -- Mad Men and the movies -- The science fiction of Mad Men -- Part III : Mad Men and history -- Mad Men and nostalgia -- Mad Men vs. the youth counterculture of the 1960s -- Mad Men goes west : California dreamin' -- Joan : the feminine ideal? -- Peggy : creating the modern woman -- Betty : diary of a mad housewife.