Why do you watch Mad Men?  Is it for the authenticity of the clothing and interiors or the portrayal of the advertising industry?  Do you remember the 1960s?  Find out more about advertising and life in the US a half-century ago.

20 ads that shook the world   HF5811 T9 2000b

A 50 year adventure in the advertising business   HF5810 B35 B35x 1999

The 1960s   E169.12 R53 2003

Accept no substitutes: the history of American advertising   HF5813 U6 M53 2000

Adland: a global history of advertising  HF5823 T83 2007

Ads, fads and consumer culture: advertising’s impact on American character and society  

HF5823 B438 2000

American cinema of the 1950s: themes and variations   PN1993.5 U6 A8575 2005

American modernism: graphic design, 1920 to 1960   NC998.5 A1 R46x 2003

Ashes to ashes: America’s hundred-year cigarette war, the public health, and the unabashed triumph

                Of Philip Morris  HV5760 K58 1996

Captains of consciousness: advertising and the social roots of the consumer culture  HF5813 U6 E94 2001

Careers in advertising   HF5827 P378 2004

Drink: a social history of America  HV5292 .B37x 1999

Furniture and interiors of the 1960s   NK2395 B66313 2004

Good night and good luck  DVD                PN4874 M89 G66x 2006

The look of the century   TS171 T35 1998

Love on the rocks: men, women and alcohol in post-World War II America  HV5292 R68 2002

Mad men and philosophy: nothing is as it seems  PN1992.77 M226 M33 2010  (Leisure Reading)

Mad men  unbuttoned: a romp through 1960’s America   PN1992.77 M226 V37 2010 (Leisure Reading)   

Mid-century modern: furniture of the 1950s   TS885 G68 1984

The mirror makers: a history of American advertising and its creators   HF5813 U6 F66 1997

Postwar interior design: 1945-1960   NK1986 O73 F4 1987

Putney Swope (DVD)   PN1997 P888649x 2006

Sex appeal: the art of allure in graphic and advertising design  HF5827.85 S49 2000

Soap, sex, and cigarettes: a cultural history of American advertising   HF5813 U6 S55 1998