Listen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.comID: 229982Title: Mad Women: The Other Side of Life on Madison Avenue in the '60s and BeyondAuthor: Jane MaasNarrator: Coleen MarloFormat: UnabridgedLength: 05:35:00Language: EnglishRelease date: 02-28-12Publisher: Tantor MediaGenres: Biography & Memoir, BusinessSummary:Mad Women is a tell-all account of life in the New Yorkadvertising world of the 1960s and '70s from Jane Maas, a femalecopywriter who succeeded in the primarily male environment portrayed bythe hit TV show Mad Men.Fans of the show are dying toknow how accurate it is: did people really have that much sex in theoffice? Were there really three-martini lunches? Were women reallysecond-class citizens? Jane Maas says the answer to all three questionsis unequivocally yes. And her book, based on her own experiences andcountless interviews with her peers, gives the full stories, from thejunior account man whose wife nearly left him when she found the copy ofScrew magazine he'd used to find 'entertainment' for a client,to the Ogilvy & Mather agency's legendary annual sex-and-booze-filled Boat Ride, from which it was said no virgin ever returnedintact. Wickedly funny and full of juicy inside information, Mad Women alsotackles the tougher issues of the era, such as equal pay, rampantjaw-dropping sexism, and the difficult choice many women faced betweenmotherhood and their careers.Contact: [email protected]

Ask this episode

“What did the council decide on item 42?” — answered with the speaker and the moment.

Transcript

Related