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Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In the glamorous and ego-driven world of advertising, everyone is selling something and nothing is ever what it seems. Set in 1960 New York, this series reveals the lives of the ruthlessly competitive men and women of Madison Avenue's "Golden Age," where key players make an art of the sell while their private world gets sold. And no one plays the game better than Don Draper, the biggest ad man--and ladies' man--in the business.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Mad Men is back and plunges into the seductive and intriguing world of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. Jon Hamm and the rest of the award-winning cast continue to mesmerize as they adapt .to changing times, social revolution, and a radical world. Lust is back. Adultery is back. Deception is back.
7) Invisible
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One of America's greatest novelists" dazzlingly reinvents the coming-of-age story in his most passionate and surprising book to date
Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster's fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the spring of 1967, when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University, meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent and seductive girfriend, Margot. Before long,...
8) Shag
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001, c1989
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1963, four Southern best friends decide on a final round of wild parties and romance in Myrtle Beach before going their separate ways into marriage and adulthood.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the New York City of Kline and De Kooning to the jazz era of New Orleans's French Quarter, to Ken Kesey's psychedelic California, Prime Green explores the 1960s in all its weird, innocent, turbulent, and fascinating glory. Building on personal vignettes from Robert Stone's travels across America, the legendary novelist offers not only a riveting and powerful memoir but also an unforgettable inside perspective on a unique moment in American history....
13) Funny girl
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Funny Girl takes place in a swinging 60s where the nation is mesmerized by unlikely comedy star Sophie Straw, the former Blackpool beauty queen who just wants to make people laugh, like her heroine Lucille Ball. Behind the scenes, the cast and crew are having the time of their lives. But when the script begins to get a bit too close to home, and life starts imitating art, they all face a choice.
The writers, Tony and Bill, comedy obsessives, each...
14) Not fade away
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
From David Chase, creator of The Sopranos, comes a story about discovering your passions, following your dreams, and finding yourself. It's the 1960s and rock n' roll is changing the world. Inspired by a bold new era and his success in a local band, Douglas drops out of college to pursue his musical dreams, only to discover the harsh realities of the music industry. Douglas is forced to choose between listening to his father or listening to his heart....
16) Arcadia
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The rise and fall of Arcadia, a hippy commune, and its lasting impact on Bit, a gifted young man.
17) Inherent vice
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Private eye Doc Sportello's ex-old lady shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend whom she just happens to be in love with, and a plot by his wife and her boyfriend to kidnap that billionaire and throw him in a loony bin.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Returning for its sixth season, Mad Men explores the glamorous and ego-driven 'golden age' of advertising in late 1960s New York City. Don Draper and the rest of the cast continue to captivate as they deal with the aftereffects of adultery, divorce, a merger, and an ever-changing social climate.
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The Little Book of the 1960s is a look back at the swinging decade from someone who was there, in mind, body, and spirit. But this is nostalgia with a difference. This is nostalgia based on quirky facts and fascinating data, with a discerning eye on the bizarre, the frivolous, and the funny. It is a striking book of trivia in bite-sized pieces for everyone who was there, or wishes they were. The sights, the sounds, the lifestyle, the whole 1960s experience...
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