--- description: Read the same story that Don Draper paged through while he waited to learn whether he'd get his old job back title: Now You Can Read What Don Draper Reads image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf8ab0642e4515109/69868d061eebf7eefa370a88/eisenhowercover.png?branch=production&width=828&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Mad Men](/tag/mad-men/) ## Mad Men Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Now You Can Read What Don Draper Reads by [ashley Ross](/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 29, 2014 7:48 PM CUT  by [ashley Ross](/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 29, 2014 7:48 PM CUT When the new–and last–season of _Mad Men_ kicked off with its first episode titled “Time Zones,” viewers didn’t realize the theme would stick around. But as [Vulture’s Margaret Lyons notes](http://www.vulture.com/2014/04/mad-men-and-time-ticking-clocks-of-field-trip.html "undefined"), the most recent episode “had a particularly strong focus on time.” Most notable to us at TIME was the issue Don Draper read as he waited to learn if he was going to get his job back at the advertising agency Sterling, Cooper & Partners (which happens to be set in the [Time & Life Building](http://time.com/30406/time-life-building-60s-mad-men/ "undefined")). The issue from April 4, 1969, which features a cover about the death of Dwight Eisenhower. You can read a free preview of the story, which is part of our archive open to subscribers, [here](http://time.com/81343/eisenhower-soldier-of-peace/ "undefined"). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/81481/mad-men-time-magazine/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/81481/mad-men-time-magazine/"},"headline":"Now You Can Read What Don Draper Reads","datePublished":"2014-04-29T19:48:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:33:53.748Z","description":"Read the same story that Don Draper paged through while he waited to learn whether he'd get his old job back","url":"https://time.com/81481/mad-men-time-magazine/","keywords":["Mad Men","don draper","Jon Hamm"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf8ab0642e4515109/69868d061eebf7eefa370a88/eisenhowercover.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"ashley Ross","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf8ab0642e4515109/69868d061eebf7eefa370a88/eisenhowercover.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"eisenhowercover","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/mad-men/","name":"Mad Men"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/81481/mad-men-time-magazine/","name":"Now You Can Read What Don Draper Reads"}}]}] ```