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Mad Men (2007)/S3E3 · My Old Kentucky Home/Sally reads to Grandpa Gene: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Mad Men · Season 3, Episode 3, "My Old Kentucky Home"

Sally reads to Grandpa Gene: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Sally Draper (Kiernan Shipka)

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Sally reads Gibbon to her grandfather every night, and later she steals five dollars from him and lies about it. Rome fell, and so did her grandfather's wallet.

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Edward Gibbon · 1776 · nonfiction

Edward Gibbon published the six volumes between 1776 and 1788. It is the book that made the fall of Rome a thing people argue about at dinner. Sally is a child reading it aloud, and she is already working on the lying part.

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