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By Off the Shelf Staff
| Tuesday, April 07, 2015 - Off the Shelf
It is with heavy hearts that we bid farewell to Mad Men. One of the
early lights of television’s so-called Golden Age, Mad Men was unlike
anything else when it premiered on AMC in 2007.
 Set in the slick world of New
York City advertising and featuring stylish period costumes, it looked more
like a big-budget Hollywood feature than cable TV. But what made Mad Men strike such a
chord among viewers goes far beyond the show’s aesthetics.
A deep and
heartfelt exploration of America during the 1960s, a period of intense and
rapid social change, Mad
Men has tackled the themes of social mobility, suburban
alienation, sexism, feminism, homophobia, and racism, issues that have gone
on to define the last five decades. As we prepare to say goodbye to Don
Draper, Peggy Olson, Roger Sterling, and Joan Holloway, here are the books to
keep the conversation flowing once this iconic show has gone dark. View Full List
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