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Mad Women is a tell-all consideration of life in the New York advertising world of the 1960s and '70s from Jane Maas, a lady copywriter who succeeded in the generally male environment portrayed by the hit TV show Mad Men. Followers of the show are dying to learn how accurate it is: did people really have that much love-making in the office? Were there really three-martini lunches? Were women really second-class residents? Jane Maas says the answer to all three questions is unequivocally yes. And her book, predicated on her own experiences and countless interviews with her peers, gives the full testimonies, from the junior consideration man whose wife nearly remaining him when she found the copy of Screw mag he'd used to find "entertainment" for a customer, to the Ogilvy & Mather agency's renowned annual sex-and-booze-filled Motorboat Ride, from which it was said no virgin ever before went back intact. Wickedly funny and filled with juicy inside information, Mad Women also tackles the tougher issues of the age, such as identical pay, rampant jaw-dropping sexism, and the difficult choice many women confronted between motherhood and their opportunities.
