{"product_id":"9781429941143","title":"Mad Women: The Other Side of Life on Madison Avenue in the '60s and Beyond","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Breezy and salty.\" -\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Hilarious! Honest, intimate, this book tells it as it was.\" -Mary Wells Lawrence, author of \u003ci\u003eA Big Life\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eIn Advertising\u003c\/i\u003e) and founding president of Wells Rich Greene \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Breezy and engaging [though] ...The chief value of \u003ci\u003eMad Women\u003c\/i\u003e is the witness it bears for younger women about the snobbery and sexism their mothers and grandmothers endured as the price of entry into mid-century American professional life.\" -\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"A real-life Peggy Olson, right out of Mad Men.\"  -Shelly Lazarus, Chairman, Ogilvy\u0026amp;Mather\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat was it like to be an advertising woman on Madison Avenue in the 60s and 70s - that \u003ci\u003eMad Men\u003c\/i\u003e era of casual sex and professional serfdom? A real-life Peggy Olson reveals it all in this immensely entertaining and bittersweet memoir.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMad Women\u003c\/i\u003e is a tell-all account of life in the New York advertising world by Jane Maas, a copywriter who succeeded in the primarily male jungle depicted in the hit show \u003ci\u003eMad Men\u003c\/i\u003e.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFans of the show are dying to know how accurate it is: was there really that much sex at the office? Were there really three-martini lunches? Were women really second-class citizens? Jane Maas says the answer to all three questions is unequivocally \"yes.\" Her book, based on her own experiences and countless interviews with her peers, gives the full stories, from the junior account man whose wife almost left him when she found the copy of Screw magazine he'd used to find \"a date\" for a client, to the Ogilvy\u0026amp;Mather's annual Boat Ride, a sex-and-booze filled orgy, from which it was said no virgin ever returned intact. Wickedly funny and full of juicy inside information, \u003ci\u003eMad Women\u003c\/i\u003e also tackles some of the tougher issues of the era, such as unequal pay, rampant, jaw-dropping sexism, and the difficult choice many women faced between motherhood and their careers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47153794285808,"sku":"9781429941143","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429941143_p0.jpg?v=1769902298","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429941143","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}