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Book Review: 'Mad Women', by Jane Maas

A memoir of the Mad Men era brings fresh perspective on all that sex and drinking

Mary Wells, the quintessential Mad Woman, with colleagues at the Jack Tinker and Partners agency in 1965 — Mary Wells, the quintessential Mad Woman, with colleagues at the Jack Tinker and Partners agency in 1965Photograph by Burt Glinn/Magnum

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By Jim Kelly

February 23, 2012 at 10:01 PM UTC

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This article is part of the February 27, 2012 issue of businessweek.

Book Review: 'Mad Women', by Jane Maas

Mad Women:
The Other Side of Life on Madison Avenue in the ’60s and Beyond
By Jane Maas
St. Martin’s Press
228pp; $24.99