The Books of Mad Men
Mad Men creator Matt Weiner has said Helen Gurley Brown's
Sex and the Single Girl and Betty Friedan's
The Feminine Mystique are major influences on the show, but we have yet to get a gander at any characters reading those books. Yet the characters do read plenty, and thankfully, the books of
Mad Men are as carefully chosen, as we'd hope. Each tells us something about the character and the time. Let's find out what.
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Great! But what about Exodus by Leon Uris (season 1, episode 6) and Meditations In An Emergency by Frank O'Hara (season 2, 1st and last episodes)?
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