Bobos in paradise : the new upper class and how they got there / David Brooks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brooks, David, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Elite (Social sciences)--United States.

Elite (Social sciences).

United States.

Upper class--United States.

Upper class.

United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.

Social conditions.

United States--Social life and customs--1971-.

Manners and customs.

Physical Description:

284 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Simon & Schuster, [2000]

Summary:

It used to be pretty easy to distinguish between the bourgeois world of capitalism and the bohemian counterculture. The bourgeois worked for corporations, wore gray, and went to church. The bohemians were artists and intellectuals. Bohemians championed the values of the liberated 1960s; the bourgeois were the enterprising yuppies of the 1980s.

But now the bohemian and the bourgeois are all mixed up, as David Brooks explains in this brilliant description of upscale culture in America. It is hard to tell an espresso-sipping professor from a cappuccino-gulping banker. Laugh and sob as you read about the information age economy's new dominant class. Marvel at their attitudes toward morality, sex, work, and lifestyle, and at how the members of this new elite have combined the values of the counter-cultural sixties with those of the achieving eighties. These are the people who set the tone for society today, for you. They are bourgeois bohemians: Bobos.

Contents:

1 The Rise of the Educated Class 13

2 Consumption 54

3 Business Life 103

4 Intellectual Life 140

5 Pleasure 189

6 Spiritual Life 218

7 Politics and Beyond 255.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0684853779

OCLC:

42952723