Season Three
Confessions of an Advertising Man — David Ogilvy (1963)
This advertising handbook made the rounds of the Sterling Cooper offices during the show’s third season. Roger Sterling’s brief review: “It’s the book everybody writes… It should be called A Thousand Reasons I’m so Great.”
Read: More about the book at AMC’s Mad Men blog
The Group — Mary McCarthy (1963)
Undoubtedly part of the wising up process for Bryn Mawr grad Betty, The Group is a quick, gossipy, but also smart and satirical novel about a gaggle of Vassar grads and their largely unhappy adult lives. It’s just the kind of downer we can imagine her savoring in season three.
Read: Natasha Vargas-Cooper of The Awl on Betty, The Group, and Sex and the Single Girl
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Edward Gibbon (1776-1789)
Is there any greater portent of total familial meltdown than Gibbon’s 18th-century masterpiece in the hands of little Sally Draper? Yes, that is the bedtime story she reads aloud to her beloved Grandpa Gene early in season three.
Read: All six volumes at Project Gutenberg
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How about the poetry of Anne Sexton?
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Another book mentioned was “The Chrysanthemum and the Sword”, during the episode where Sterling Cooper was trying to get the Honda account and had that delightful scene of Betty riding the motorscooter.
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