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Ta-Nehisi Coates - Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor for The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues for TheAtlantic.com and the magazine. He is the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle. More

Born in 1975, the product of two beautiful parents. Raised in West Baltimore—not quite The Wire, but sometimes ill all the same. Studied at the Mecca for some years in the mid-’90s. Emerged with a purpose, if not a degree. Slowly migrated up the East Coast with a baby and my beloved, until I reached the shores of Harlem. Wrote some stuff along the way.

Mad Men Thread

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Oct 26 2009, 10:00 AM ET Comment

You know the drill...


I think I really like a scared Don--that's really his truest self, and the rest is a facade. One of my favorite scenes happens in season one, when Rachel Menken berates Don for wanting to run a way and calls him a coward. It was like seeing him undone offered a view of what's really happening inside.

Anyway, I'm sure you guys have more. I really would like to see more Peggy. The minute Joan's husband said he was going into the Army, I knew their marriage was over.
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