Undressing Don Draper

Totally enraptured by the current season of AMC’s Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning series Mad Men? Then submerge yourself even deeper into the twilight of the Eisenhower era and the nicotine- and booze-saturated world of corporate advertising with Mad Men Unbuttoned: A Romp Through 1960s America, an exhilarating companion book from journalist Natasha Vargas-Cooper. This shotgun blast of footnotes, trivia, social commentary and archival photos recreates the cultural matrix of the 1960s in short, rapid-fire subchapters such as “The Promiscuous Mingling of Art and Copy,” “Puffing While Pregnant,” and “The Misfits: They Eat Horses, Don’t They?” that lucidly articulate not only why I like the show so much, but also why it is an important TV milestone.