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Reference Works -- The Sixties
- This is Who We Were -- The 1960'sOverview of the decade includes brief biographies, economic and demographic data, popular culture, and more.
- Working Americans, 1810-2015: Volume VI, Women at WorkProfiles individual women and provides historical context for years within each decade. You may preview the table of contents.
- Encyclopedia of the Sixties: A Decade of Culture and CountercultureNearly 500 A–Z entries outline the "political, religious, artistic, and popular topics of the decade." Please note the chronology near the front of the set.
- Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social HistoryTwo-volume set (2012) contains over 450 signed essays addressing "social structures and the environment that shaped American life, including family, work, leisure, social movements, and patterns of mobility and settlements..."
Reference Works -- The Television Series
Linked below are several online books which might be particularly useful for basic research on the series.
You can view a more complete list of W&L library books on the topic by clicking on this link: Mad Men
- Mad Men Carousel: The Complete Critical Companion2015 volume is an "episode-by-episode guide to all seven seasons of AMC's Mad Men." You may preview the contents.
- Mad Men, Mad World: Sex, Politics, Style, and the 1960'sIn this 2013 volume, scholars "consider the AMC drama from a fascinating array of perspectives, including fashion, history, architecture, civil rights, feminism, consumerism, art, cinema, and the serial format, as well as through theoretical frames such as critical race theory, gender, queer theory, global studies, and psychoanalysis." You may preview the contents.
- Mad Men and Politics: Nostalgia and the Remaking of Modern AmericaEssays in this 2015 volume "analyze the most important dimensions explored on the show, including issues around gender, race, prejudice, the family, generational change, the social movements of the 1960s, our understanding of America's place in the world, and the idea of work in the post-war period." You may preview the contents.
- Lucky Strikes and a Three Martini Lunch: Thinking about Television's Mad MenSecond edition (2015) contains nearly 20 essays which analyze themes and issues associated with the series. You may preview the contents.
- Mad Men and Philosophy: Nothing Is as It Seems 2010 volume is "a look at the philosophical underpinnings" of the show, invoking Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, John Kenneth Galbraith, and other to analyze characters and themes.