Mad About the Sixties: The Best of the Decade
When American kids of a certain vintage--Bill Clinton, for example, but not Bob Dole--put down their childish things, they picked upMADmagazine. It didn't leave their hands until adulthood hit, and maybe after. The magazine ain't what it used to be, so it's easy to forget how keen it once was.MAD About the Sixtiesis a long-overdue collection of material from that seminal humor magazine's salad days. It's a welcome reminder that whenMADwas good, it was very, very good: it featured solid writing coupled with great art, month after month. The movie and  television parodies ("Bats-Man," "Star Blech") are sure to be a hit, whether you saw the originals the first time around or as reruns. While it helps to have lived through  the era--particularly for the ad parodies--there's enough generic daffiness inMAD About the Sixtiesto satisfy the reader who never saw Wings, much less Paul McCartney's other band.