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Farewell to Mad Men

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John M. Cunningham graduated from Kalamazoo College in 2000 with a B.A. in English. He worked at Britannica from 2004 to 2018. A student of pop culture and the arts, he wrote about popular (and semipopular)...
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Still from Mad Men (2007- ) an American television drama series set in the 1960s first at the New York City Madison Avenue Sterling Cooper advertising agency, later at the Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce firm.
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The first of the final seven episodes of the American TV show Mad Men airs on April 5. The acclaimed drama series, which debuted in 2007, centers on the personal and professional life of New York advertising executive Don Draper (Jon Hamm) amid the glamour and turbulence of the 1960s.

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