Carla Seaquist: Not All of Us Were "Mad Men"

Before Mad Men solidifies, at the close of its fifth season, as the signature of the '60s, a cultural marker of the era (see here, here, and here), a dissent: Not all of us wanted the "glam" life of Madison Avenue; in fact, I'd guess very few did. We wanted instead a purposeful life -- to "change the world" -- and we looked hard to find it.America in the aftermath of victory in World War II grew increasingly prosperous, phenomenally so by ...

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