{"id":1183,"date":"2014-05-27T15:17:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T19:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2014-05-27T15:17:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T19:17:09","slug":"mad-men-and-summer-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/?p=1183","title":{"rendered":"Mad Men and Summer Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mad Men is a television series set in the 1960s that follows characters working in advertising on Madison Avenue. Literature is often referenced or appears in the series and fans have been taking note. There is even a Twitter hashtag #MadMenReading so anyone can tag literature seen or referenced on the show. Many public libraries keep track of this list and have created companion \u201cyou might also like\u201d lists of books that were influential in the 60s or help fans appreciate the culture depicted in \u201cMad Men\u201d.<\/p>\n

A lot of work is put into making the television series historically accurate from the costumes to the soda in the vending machines (there has been great debate<\/a> about the actual date Dr. Pepper was released in New York City). The literature on the show is certainly not there by accident. There are even a few made-up titles like Sterling\u2019s Gold<\/i> by Roger Sterling<\/a> and Something<\/i> by Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/a>. Many of the titles give insight into the character\u2019s lives or historical events. Billy Parrot, a librarian at the New York Public Library, has been meticulously documenting every reference to and sighting of literature in the series: http:\/\/www.nypl.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/27\/mad-men-reading-list<\/a>. In addition to stills from episodes where a book was sighted or referenced, this link will also lead you to a \u201cSally Draper reading list\u201d and a list of books \u201cYou Might Also Like\u201d if you are interested in Mad Men.<\/p>\n

Here is Parrot\u2019s list, including links to copies in Wittenberg\u2019s EZRA catalog or in OhioLINK\u2019s catalog (if there is no link, the book is unavailable from EZRA and OhioLINK):<\/p>\n

1. The View from Chivo \/ H. Allen Smith OhioLINK<\/a>
\n2. The Peking Man is Missing \/ Claire Taschdjian OhioLINK<\/a>
\n3. La Presidenta \/ Lois Gould OhioLINK<\/a>
\n4. Masterpieces of World Literature in Digest Form \/ Frank Magill OhioLINK<\/a>
\n5. The Crisis of the Old Order \/ Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (Volume 1 of The Age of Roosevelt) EZRA<\/a>
\n6. Lady Chatterley’s Lover \/ D. H. Lawrence OhioLINK<\/a>
\n7. Italy \/ Herbert Kubly and the editors of Life EZRA<\/a>
\n8. Nursery Friends from France \/ translated by Olive Beaupre Miller OhioLINK<\/a>
\n9. Exodus \/ Leon Uris EZRA<\/a>
\n10. The Best of Everything \/ Rona Jaffe OhioLINK<\/a>
\n11. Atlas Shrugged \/ Ayn Rand EZRA<\/a>
\n12. The Americans: The Colonial Experience \/ Daniel Boorstin EZRA<\/a>
\n13. Meditations in an Emergency \/ Frank O\u2019Hara OhioLINK<\/a>
\n14. The Agony and the Ecstasy \/ Irving Stone EZRA<\/a>
\n15. Marjorie Morningstar \/ Herman Wouk EZRA<\/a>
\n16. \u201cA Diamond as Big as the Ritz\u201d from Babylon Revisited and Other Stories \/ F. Scott Fitzgerald EZRA<\/a>
\n17. Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies \/ C. S. Forester OhioLINK<\/a>
\n18. Ship of Fools \/ Katherine Anne Porter EZRA<\/a>
\n19. Junior Classics Volume One (Fairy Tales And Fables) and Volume Seven (The Animal Book) OhioLINK<\/a>
\n20. The Sound and the Fury \/ William Faulkner EZRA<\/a>
\n21. The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary OhioLINK<\/a>
\n22. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire \/ Edward Gibbon EZRA<\/a>
\n23. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer \/ Mark Twain EZRA<\/a>
\n24. Be My Guest \/ Conrad Hilton OhioLINK<\/a>
\n25. Confessions of an Advertising Man \/ David Ogilvy EZRA<\/a>
\n26. The Bible EZRA<\/a>
\n27. Helping Yourself with Psychiatry \/ Frank Caprio OhioLINK<\/a>
\n28. Set Theory and Logic \/ Robert Stoll OhioLINK<\/a>
\n29. Meeting with Japan \/ Fosco Maraini EZRA<\/a>
\n30. The Corps \/ W.E.B. Griffin [Note: Parrot\u2019s blog explains this is an anachronism; although not published until 1994, \u201ca compilation of the first three books in the Corps series\u201d in the episode \u201cThe Color Blue\u201d 3.10.]<\/p>\n

a. Book I, Semper Fi (1986)
\nb. Book II, Call to Arms (1987)
\nc. Book III, Counterattack (1990)OhioLINK<\/a>
\nd. Book IV, Battleground (1991)EZRA<\/a>
\ne. Book V, Line of Fire (1992)OhioLINK<\/a>
\nf. Book VI, Close Combat (1993)OhioLINK<\/a>
\ng. Book VII, Behind the Lines (1996)OhioLINK<\/a>
\nh. Book VIII, In Danger’s Path (1999)OhioLINK<\/a>
\ni. Book IX, Under Fire (2002)OhioLINK<\/a>
\nj. Book X, Retreat, Hell! (2004)OhioLINK<\/a><\/p>\n

31. The Group \/ Mary McCarthy EZRA<\/a>
\n32. The Horse That Liked Sandwiches \/ Vivian L. Thompson
\n33. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword \/ Ruth Benedict EZRA<\/a>
\n34. The Clue of the Black Keys \/ Carolyn Keene OhioLINK<\/a>
\n35. The Miracle Worker \/ William Gibson EZRA<\/a>
\n36. Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships \/ Eric Berne EZRA<\/a>
\n37. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn \/ Mark Twain EZRA<\/a>
\n38. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold \/ John Le Carr\u00e9 EZRA<\/a>
\n39. You Are Not the Target: A Practical Manual of How to Cope with a World of Bewildering Change \/ Laura Archera Huxley OhioLINK<\/a>
\n40. Gazella \/ Stuart Cloete OhioLINK<\/a>
\n41. The Sand Pebbles \/ Richard McKenna EZRA<\/a>
\n42. A Thousand Days \/ John F. Kennedy in the White House \/ Arthur Schlesinger EZRA<\/a>
\n43. Johnny Got His Gun \/ Dalton Trumbo OhioLINK<\/a>
\n44. Mein Kampf \/ Adolf Hitler EZRA<\/a>
\n45. Where Love Has Gone \/ Harold Robbins OhioLINK<\/a>
\n46. The Life of Greece \/ Will Durant (Volume 2 of The Story of Civilization) EZRA<\/a>
\n47. The Tibetan Book of the Dead EZRA<\/a>
\n48. The Berlitz Self-Teacher: French OhioLINK<\/a>
\n49. The Fixer \/ Bernard Malamud EZRA<\/a>
\n50. The Crying of Lot 49 \/ Thomas Pynchon EZRA<\/a>
\n51. “Ozymandias” \/ Percy Bysshe Shelley EZRA<\/a>
\n52. Odds Against \/ Dick Francis OhioLINK<\/a>
\n53. The Black Cauldron \/ Lloyd Alexander EZRA<\/a>
\n54. Nature \/ Ralph Waldo Emerson Online (Gutenberg)<\/a> OhioLINK<\/a>
\n55. Goodnight Moon \/ Margaret Wise Brown EZRA<\/a>
\n56. Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion \/ Herbert Aptheker OhioLINK<\/a>
\n57. Twice 22 \/ Ray Bradbury OhioLINK<\/a>
\n58. Tai-Pan \/ James Clavell EZRA<\/a>
\n59. The Smokejumpers \/ Randle M. Hurst
\n60. The Sunday Gentleman \/ Irving Wallace OhioLINK<\/a>
\n61. Third Girl \/ Agatha Christie OhioLINK<\/a>
\n62. Julius Caesar \/ William Shakespeare EZRA<\/a>
\n63. The Inferno \/ Dante Alighieri EZRA<\/a>
\n64. Topaz \/ Leon Uris OhioLINK<\/a>
\n65. The Last Picture Show \/ Larry McMurtry OhioLINK<\/a>
\n66. Valley of the Dolls \/ Jacqueline Susann OhioLINK<\/a>
\n67. I Ching : The Book of Change \/ John Blofeld EZRA<\/a>
\n68. Rosemary’s Baby \/ Ira Levin EZRA<\/a>
\n69. How I Raised Myself From Failure to Success In Selling \/ Frank Bettger OhioLINK<\/a>
\n70. Bhagavad Gita EZRA<\/a>
\n71. Nicholas and Alexandra \/ Robert K. Massie EZRA<\/a>
\n72. Evolution \/ Ruth E. Moore EZRA<\/a>
\n73. The Penny Wars \/ Elliott Baker OhioLINK<\/a>
\n74. A Small Town in Germany \/ John Le Carr\u00e9 EZRA<\/a>
\n75. Better Homes and Gardens Junior Cook Book: For the Hostess and Host of Tomorrow EZRA<\/a>
\n76. Frankenstein \/ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley EZRA<\/a>
\n77. Dracula \/ Bram Stoker EZRA<\/a>
\n78. The American Way of Death \/ Jessica Mitford EZRA<\/a>
\n79. The Detective \/ Roderick Thorp OhioLINK<\/a>
\n80. Listen to the Warm \/ Rod McKuen OhioLINK<\/a>
\n81. From the Earth to the Moon \/ Jules Verne EZRA<\/a>
\n82. Portnoy’s Complaint \/ Philip Roth EZRA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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