5 Feet of Fury

Ed Driscoll: The Revolution Devours Itself

Ed Driscoll writes:

I think the producers of Mad Men were as surprised at the public’s rather intrigued reaction to their depiction of the swank, well-groomed world of New York in 1959 in their first season, as Ceausescu was to his subjects’ response to Dallas episodes aired in Communist Romania in the 1980s.

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