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Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
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by David Brooks

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Once it was easy to distinguish the staid Bourgeois from the radical Bohemians. This field study of America's latest elite--a hybrid Brooks calls the Bobos--covers everything from cultural artifacts to Bobo attitudes towards sex, morality, work, and leisure.

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In his bestselling work of "comic sociology," David Brooks coins a new word, Bobo, to describe today's upper class--those who have wed the bourgeois world of capitalist enterprise to the hippie values of the bohemian counterculture. Their hybrid lifestyle is the atmosphere we breathe, and in this witty and serious look at the cultural consequences of the information age, Brooks has defined a new generation.Do you believe that spending $15,000 on a media center is vulgar, but that spending $15,000 on a slate shower stall is a sign that you are at one with the Zenlike rhythms of nature? Do you work for one of those visionary software companies where people come to work wearing hiking boots and glacier glasses, as if a wall of ice were about to come sliding through the parking lot? If so, you might be a Bobo.

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  • Title Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
  • Author David Brooks
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster, New York
  • Publication date 2001-03-06
  • Features Index
  • ISBN 9780684853789 / 0684853787
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.44 x 5.5 x 0.8 in (21.44 x 13.97 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Social conditions - 1980-, United States - Social life and customs -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99088094
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.520

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Citations

  • Entertainment Weekly, 03/02/2001, Page 63
  • New York Times, 02/25/2001, Page 28

About the author

David Brooks writes a biweekly opinion column for The New York Times and appears regularly on PBS NewsHour and NPR's All Things Considered. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.

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