One of the most recycled sayings about the ’60s—”If you remember them, you probably weren’t there”—is also one of the dumbest. We get the joke: we were all too blitzed on chemicals and weed to have anything but the most foggy recollection. The truth is, for the generation that came of age in those -consciousness-stretching days, those memories are probably the most vivid of a lifetime. It’s everything after that we can’t always remember. Nineteen sixty-nine? Clear as a bell. Nineteen ninety-nine? Kind of a blur.

Time has been ’s costar from the start. It provides the jokes, the fears, the gadgets. It’s behind the haunted look in Don Draper’s eyes. But when season three begins on Aug. 16, time may play its biggest role yet. Creator Matt Weiner won’t pin down the year, but the evidence points to 1963—and 1963 was no ordinary year. For men who thought they ruled by right, it was the year things fell apart.

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The Grey’s Anatomy star was supposed to be America’s new sweetheart. Now we’ve all turned on her. Is it her fault, or ours?

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I spent many days with the writer of Angela’s Ashes, and he was one of the greatest men I’ve ever interviewed.

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Daughtry finished fourth on American Idol in 2006, but his debut album became the bestselling record of 2007. His follow-up, Leave This Town, debuts this month. He spoke to Ramin Setoodeh.